One element of winter is Earth Movement and it has started in Oregon. From Eugene station KVAL:
Rockslide on 101: 'The whole Oregon Coast is a slide'
A rockslide came down across Highway 101 Wednesday afternoon, blocking several lanes and slowing traffic.
A bit more and a DOH!-worthy observation from an Oregon Department of Transportation spokesman:
Oregon Department of Transportation spokesman Jared Castle says slides and sinks along the coastal highway are routine, although one of this size is unusual.
“U.S. 101 is built in an area where you would never build a highway,” Castle says, talking about the precarious location of the roadway. “The whole Oregon Coast is a slide.”
One commenter noted that the road was freshly paved. We have been getting a lot of roadwork up here too — stimulus money. The only problem is that the various projects have to be completed within a specific time. The only projects that can be done are band-aid ones — repaving a road. The time required to do serious engineering (stopping a rock slide, rebuilding a bridge, etc…) precludes the use of stimulus funding.
Posted by DaveH at October 30, 2009 07:49 PM | TrackBack