Chunk of California Highway falls into the Pacific Ocean

Lexy · March 19, 2011, 00:27:50

– Thu Mar 17, 6:56 pm ET

CARMEL, Calif. – Engineers on Thursday were working to figure out when they'll be able to reopen a stretch of California coastal highway that collapsed into the ocean, blocking traffic to the scenic Big Sur region.

A 40-foot section of Highway 1 crumbled just after 5 p.m. Wednesday following several days of rainy weather. The entire southbound lane is gone, and the soil under the northbound lane also was giving way.

No one was injured in the slide, the California Highway Patrol said. Authorities have closed the two-lane road to traffic indefinitely.
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Everlasting · March 21, 2011, 10:43:53

The entire state will fall into the ocean soon.

Xanth · March 21, 2011, 11:43:00

Quote from: Everlasting on March 21, 2011, 10:43:53
The entire state will fall into the ocean soon.

The irony here is that the more people think and believe that will happen... the more likely it will happen.

Lexy · March 22, 2011, 00:08:31

That highway looks like its built on top of sand...

Nameless · August 02, 2018, 04:32:29

Quote from: Xanth on March 21, 2011, 11:43:00
The irony here is that the more people think and believe that will happen... the more likely it will happen.

LOL, then why hasn't the world ended yet?

LightBeam · August 02, 2018, 05:54:25

I would love to live on an island. Lets make it happen fellow Californians LOL. It will not fall into the ocean. It will simply break along the San Andreas fault and float a few miles away into the ocean LOL.

Xanth · August 02, 2018, 15:57:29

Quote from: Nameless on August 02, 2018, 04:32:29
LOL, then why hasn't the world ended yet?

What makes you think its not?
A massive change of that scale would take a lot longer... and I don't know about you, but I see humanity slowly falling, if not ALREADY FALLEN, off the cliff.

Nameless · August 02, 2018, 19:56:06

LOL! (sniff sniff)

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Chunk of California Highway falls into the Pacific Ocean