Giant chunk of California’s Highway 1 collapses
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- čas přidán 31. 03. 2024
- A giant chunk of Highway 1 collapsed into the ocean following heavy weekend rains, stranding as many as 1,600 people in the coastal community of Big Sur, California. #california #highway #highway1 #news
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My father was a civil engineer for Caltrans years ago and he said the Pacific Coast Highway 1 was an engineering disaster.
Did your father ever consider when the highway was built?
A woke disaster - morons managing everything now days.
Was erosion a new concept in the 1930s?
It's gorgeous, but a very dangerous road, especially in a wet year.
@@dycedargselderbrother5353They built it where it was easiest to build it, with the equipment they had at the time. It wasn’t even paved back then.
It will now be designated Hwy 3/4.
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like your humor 😂
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Nominated for best comment!
(I wish that was a thing)
Bridges to the east
Highways to the west
Here i am in the middle complaining about potholes
Ah! Nice one now there going use yur loan to pay up that bridge
...as long as they don't become SINKHOLES. That's a problem.
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you!
dont worry youre next
Not that they are fixing potholes anywhere.
"Let's build a road on the edge of an eroding cliff"
Everyone: "YEAHH!!"
You should see the houses on the edge of the eroding cliffs😂
Well, it is the most spectacular Coastline in America. So there's that.
@@laughingdog747 Take everything from California out of your life. Welcome to the stone age ya' little pr!(%.
Had a lot more coastline when it was built.
@@senorpepper3405 dont forget the homes on the riding hillsides
California's coastline is mostly cliffs and palisades composed of UNConsolidated sand, pebbles, rocks, boulders and a tiny bit of ground cover. These have been eroding and collapsing into the surf for THOUSANDS of years. People who built beautiful mansions on meadows overlooking the highway and the beaches in the 40s and 50s saw their manicured lawns disappear, crumbling away in chunks and bites over less than two decades.
Some homeowners tried to shore up their homes with huge cantilevered steel girders, and got another few years before they had to be condemned and abandoned.
The Pacific swells gnaw at the beautiful palisades relentlessly.
Pitilessly.
It would be fascinating to know how many real estate brokers grew rich selling these disappearing properties to the unwary.
For a similar (but much less long-term) disaster, look up the story of "Bayocean" in Oregon.
To the unwary???? They knew exactly what they were buying!!!
Looks like California is falling into the Ocean.....like I've been told many years ago and we're watching it inch by inch....
California has ALWAYS been falling into the ocean - long before humanity inhabited it. Sometimes things that are precious are fleeting and have to be appreciated in the moment. That makes them even more special. We have incredible memories of traveling this highway.
@@YouStillNeedToSleep You're Right! I wanted to seem a little sympathetic. What a hypocrite I am!
At 656 miles, it is the longest state route in California, and the second-longest in the US. This was a tiny tiny piece of it. It’s a beautiful drive.
A tiny piece that's going to make a huge impact
@@Snarky_Gurl ....until it's repaired.
It's quite the sight to behold but it did make me nervous at a couple points. I'm a flat-lander I guess.
Thank you. I truly is.
It’s managed to close down about 2/3 of Hwy 1 in Big Sur.
Yeah..... those roads close to the coast are always scary and beautiful at the same time!
Yeah... it used to be a lot farther from the water... but years of erosion have washed away the beaches and shorelines and undermined many sections of that road.
Not like this. Not like now.
@@markbeames7852 atmospheric rivers have dumped record amounts of water....
So many people lost there life
Not the first time, won't be the last . . .
It should be the last the whole thing should be closed it's all going to go down sooner or later most likely sooner
@@janicejackson2016 LOL
That all depends... a LOT has changed over the past 20 years. If the California shrub-cuddlers find any kind of seabirds nesting nearby or a patch of crustaceans in the ocean below... they will NEVER allow that to be rebuilt.
No joke, i hiked around the side of that cliff that fell off! I parked on the opposite side of the chunk. Crazy that the part i explored is now gone. Im a lucky idiot.
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@@captainspock6221 California has a lot of residents. They do a lot of hiking. Big sur is in central California. Many people have hiked there. It's one of the few straight parts of the bug sur drive with parking that you can sneak around and find some jade on the beach..... especially now.
😮It's all your fault , jk😅
@@FentonMulley-cz8pv The one thing in California that is straight and it falls into the ocean🤔
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I love that drive, but if there was ever a road that had absolutely no reason to exist its Hwy 1.
You contradicted yourself!
Everyone needs to drive the coast highway at least once in their life.
It’s does have a reason it’s for the drive and scenery and beaches on the way
@JohnSmith-cn4cw The highway is designated as an All-American Road. In addition to providing a scenic route to numerous attractions along the coast, the route also serves as a major thoroughfare in the Greater Los Angeles Area, the San Francisco Bay Area, and several other coastal urban areas. (From Wikipedia)
it connects farms so it definitely is needed
I really don’t think the hill wants that part of hwy 1 to be there
No, the highway is done, nature wins again.
that is a tiny piece compared to the slide that closed the highway for a year.
Cliffs eroded by water eventually do change their shapes and volumes. Cliffs that have vehicle traffic as well as water shaking them up do too. It is a natural occurrence.
That had to be scary to be the first to drive up and discover this.
Sure is sp-p-p-p-pOOky
*"That had to be scary to be the first to drive up and discover this."*
Or rather, the first to drive up and discover that the car in front of you just disappeared...
Isn't it funny how a couple of rubber cones is the only thing keeping a car from driving into certain death. What happens when fog, rain, darkness rolls in.
nothing - the highway is closed now
Well...that's a darwinian question
That's just normal for that Coastline.
Unfortunately, yes. Oregon deals with this too.
Arizona Bay will soon be a reality.
Thats not a small chunk, holy cow.
Not even on one of Gavin's list of top 100 problems with California.
Man I am so lucky that it didn't collapse while I was on it 23 years ago! Talk about a close call!
Lol. Yes, you are!😂
I drove up this highway heading up to Carmel-by-the-Sea a few years ago. I kept saying to my daughter...I am so glade I am on this side of the road and not the Ocean side. It was a beautiful drive💙
Back in 99 while working for a DC area company, I was sent to Morro Bay for a temporary job at Los Osos.
I took my rental car up Hwy 1 to check out the sea lions at Big Sur n admire the Hearst castle from afar, drove up to as far as Monterey n drove back.
Also, in 2019, i took the wife on a nice drive along Hwy 1 on our honeymoon from LA to SF, starting in Dallas.
Very beautiful scenic drive that i hope isn’t lost forever, but I know it will be soon lost forever among other things in this world.
Remember that Jesus saves from the second death.
Maranatha! 🙏✝️
Amen !!!!! And His return is imminent !!!!!!
That made me queasy looking at it from my chair in my living room! 😱
😂😂😂
The state of california is falling apart quite literally In more ways than one 🤨
Really? I don’t think so. Beautiful and fun.
@JNosewicz7569 Just you know , governor gruesome just raised the minimum wage from $16 an hour to 20 , which businesses cannot afford to pay
Research the Cascadian Subduction Zone…and I would do it pretty quickly.
Oregon’s coastal Hwy 101 is doing the same thing in multiple places.
The amount of land missing under that portion makes me think this was going on for a while and nobody noticed.
Long-term sedimentary erosion is like having a huge house of cards, then removing one card at a time from the bottom level. Each card removed may produce little or no effect at first, until you cross certain thresholds where everything above it becomes unbalanced, and a huge chunk suddenly collapses all at once.
*nobody cared!
People never know how close they come to catastrophic events involving bridges.
My husband and I used to live about a mile from there. He had to travel that stretch of highway everyday to get to the site where he was stationed. The stripes were always being repainted. I even saw the rooftops of houses that had slide down. Like one person commented, it was beautiful but scary. I hope everyone stays safe. 🙏✝️❤️🌹
Man says, "We shall build a highway."
Earth says, "Go ahead. Make my day!"
My golly, that road REALLY IS as dangerous as it looks!!!!!!
I love the views but hate to drive it. You just know everyone is looking at the mountains and the ocean and not the road.
Wait till the big one comes
ive been waiting for the so called big earth quake since i was 4 , im 56 , been preparing the whole time , i have propane bottles dehydrated food a kayak two dogs that can swim , a pop up camper ...........am i missing anything ?
Seismic activity is said to increase after the solar eclipse, in the months following. Maybe this year after April 8th? We shall see.
A huge solar flare (high intensity)will be striking/entering earth tomorrow.
Those kind are always the cause of bad earthquakes. 🙏
@@cliffordincaliforniawhiskey!!
Happens all the time... Land slides, roads collapsing into the ocean.. fun night driving
Can’t believe there’s a highway built on that wearing-away hillside. Humans are so sure of themselves.
Hiway 1 has been there forever. It was an old, worn down road in the 1960’s. I’m not surprised. Looks to be near Morrow Bay. Wonderful fishing and diving; gorgeous drive. Don’t go. Stay away. Native Ca. only. Lol! Grew up surfing, fishing and diving on the West coast. Live in Missouri, near the big river. Politics.
I'm surprised this highway stays open.
That's nothinf special, roads along high erosion waters often have failures like this due to the soil supporting the road being swept away little by little over years or by severe weather
Not by severe weather, just by normal weather. They built the road too close to the water.
Not religious, but this reminds me of that passage about building your home on rock instead of sand (or whatever it says.)
Jesus' words (for context, He is the rock...other "ground" to build on is sinking sand):
Matthew 7:24-27 NASB1995
[24] “Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock. [25] And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock. [26] Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. [27] The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and it fell-and great was its fall.”
Be well and be at peace.
@@dz7a756Thank you.✝️❤️😊
Yep, everything we need to know is in the Bible!
Yes, the 'rock' is truth. Build your life on truth... or everything will crumble, because it's not real. God's language is truth. Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
Indeed it kinda does. In other words put your trust in Christ Jesus by whom salvation comes !!!! He will soon be returning!!! Time to give our lives wholly to Him as time is almost over !!!!!!!!!!!
Wasn't Highway 1 built almost 100 years ago? From a quick google, it seems like roads are supposed to last 18-30 years depending on driving conditions and if it's resealed every 10 years. So I'd say Highway 1 has more than done it's job.
Another big coastal storm this weekend. Probably not going to help the situation.
This entire stretch of highway looks like engineering hubris.
It's like all these highly populated areas keep neglecting the roads for other silly projects.
Yeah like drag queen story hour for kids
Every year or 3 for this highway. Seems they would up the engineering.
Happens all the time in Oregon nobody puts it on national television.
Guess what guys………you’re too close to the edge.
There's a smaller scale version of this along a small river not too far from me. The state or county has shored up the road, but driving there you think it could "go" again any time. It makes me think of the group "Yes", if you get my drift.
California builds all their roads on unstable ground, both along the coast and through the mountains. The next blocked or lost road is just a rainstorm or earthquake away.
We can repair it with some asphalt and Newsomes hair gel. 😎
Not cool
It looks like those cliffs have been coming out from under the roadway for awhile.
EXTREMELY DANGEROUS!
Big Sur is one giant area waiting to collapse
In other news, you get 20 bucks an hour to fry French freis.
but i bet that person can spell french fries
The minimum wage was $1.30 in 1969. Hershey and Snickers candy bars cost ten cents back then. For an hour of work you could buy 13 candy bars. I have seen candy bars cost more than $1.50 and up to $1.75 and more over the last couple of years. 13 X $1.50 = $19.50. 20 bucks an hour has been long over due. The question is how long before workers in the red states unite and vote in their best interest?
at what point do you creeps will give up schilling for billion dollar corporations? asking the richest land owning companies to give their employees an almost livable wage is not a crime!
@@albertkillackey8114 Bruh, no matter how high you raise the minimum wage, grocery prices will rise to match. It's moronic to raise wages because grocery prices are increasing... raising wages CAUSES GROCERY PRICES TO INCREASE.
@@jackm3040 Yep, they're tricking people into moving into a higher tax bracket, but they'll never be able to actually buy more stuff. After taxes, they actually have LESS paycheck.
You can stop fire, but you can't stop water.
Highway was recently vaccinated. So that may have something to do with this.
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Oh, it's nothing... just a little off the side.
By the looks of it, the road needed to be maintained better, but you know where California tax money goes😂
No ...where?
Someone’s made a nice living repairing that highway year round
Caltran$ 🙃
Beachfront property world-wide is about to rezone itself dramatically.
No, this has nothing to do with the myth of anthropogenic global warming. _There is no sea level crisis. The sky is not falling._
It certainly is !!!!!!
What makes you say so?
@@myfavrits Rising sea levels. earthquakes, melting ice sheets, extreme weather of hurricanes, tsunamis, flooding, CC, the extinction of species, man's complicit stupidity in it all....take your pick.
@@myfavrits In 1978s Superman, Lex Luthor was trying to reset the coastline with nuclear missiles, when man's stupidity was all he needed to wait for...!
That's not going to be easy to fix, they are going to have to move that road inland.
duh
@@BBCTD496Be kind
I would ride from San Francisco to L.A. on Highway 1 to visit my sister and I always feared that a section of the highway would fall off while I was passing.
went down this highway as a kid in 68 or so pretty. San Simeon, etc.
Oh no here comes they need more of our money
Who woulda thunk?
I haven’t been able to drive all the way down the coast for years. It’s constantly closed. That road is gonna need to rebuilt.
Maybe the American government should be using taxpayer dollars for stuff like road repairs instead of foreign welfare and endless war
maybe we'd get more done if the republicans stopped voting down infrastructure improvements.
That's why Joe Biden passed an infrastructure deal. The republicans of course were against it, they don't think infrastructure is important.
Their so called infrastructure bills never have any money left over to actually fix the infrastructure after they give it all to their buddies for foreign wars
@@p_e_t_eBiden signed an infrastructure act. Also, isn’t California majority Democrat?
@@p_e_t_e - They vote it down, because 90% is for foreign aid. Wake up.
Even the highway is leaving Newsoms California.
In the mid to early 1980's the Big Sur Hwy collapsed both lanes and all the phone lines were buried along the road. I was working for ATT at the time. My job was to go south to on Hwy 101 into Ft. Hunter Legit and drive my ladder truck over Nacimiento Fergusson Rd to Hwy 1 and prepare the cables to re- connected. I stayed at the Lucia Lodge.
If they insist on a road there, certainly there is something that could be done to hinder the erosion.
The Romans built roads that lasted for thousands of years on mountains and valleys.
Why can't the US government do the same?
@@susanmercurio1060 The Romans were a whole lot smarter engineers than we have today. Even their concrete was far stronger than we use here.
@@susanmercurio1060this road was built by the California government
California will probably need around 15 Billion dollars to fix the road and thats to start with. They will probably take at least 7 years to do all the impact studies involved before they actually do any work. After the 7 years and another 15 Billion California will probably just build a new road close to the old road. Florida would rebuild the road in 3 months with about 6 million bucks lol.
Where has all the infrastructure money gone?
Newsome doesn't have buddies in construction in this part of California.
@@henryt9281 It didn't go to migrants. Stop blaming people who are better than you.
Israel and the Ukraine can answer that one
Nowhere, it hasn’t been spent yet. Takes a lot of time to get infrastructure projects going. And a segment of Highway 1 collapses almost every year - it’s caused by mudslides due to erosion and rain, there’s not much you can do about it when it hugs the coastline so tightly.
@@henryt9281More likely Ukraine and Israel
So what else is new? Been occurring since day 1. What else expect building hwy on eroding cliffs next to an ocean?! Don’t call it devil’s slide (actually that’s a portion farther north near Pacifica) for nothing!
Build back better they told us 🙄
WOW, Earth 🌎 is a living breathing system always changing.
The planet is not a person, honey. You need to throw those crystals out, and start eating beef.
Looks like Hwy-1 is a goner..
Nothing new with highway 1?
Part was gone a decade ago when I went to Hearst castle
Unless I'm mistaken, the section with the bite out of it, as shown in the video, is directly south of the Rocky Creek Bridge. No?
They should make a law banning natural erosion...
Such a Beautiful coastal drive
Literally everyone saw this coming.
Luckily, with the high taxation the residents been paying all those years, the state will replace that section asap, right ?
Is newsome going to claim this happened in Florida not California, too?
There’s a lot of businesses,parks and people out of work because of this , there needs to be a quick solution .
Drove on this road in 2012. Beautiful drive
Lady posted a prophetic dream three weeks ago about seeing bridges collapsing…
That road should be considered impassable as it is completely undermined. Just about anything could take that section out.
It’s so gorgeous there in California. I’d be scared to travel this road though, but I want to.
My family and I went out on that highway 1, many times, to enjoy the great scenery, it will probably cost alot to fix it..but we loved the scenery of the ocean from this roadway,always, a different view, depending on the time of day- super sunsets, the ocean even gave a great reason to
go through Highway 1...
The road is reflecting the government
I love metaphors, too!😁
I live on Arkansas, the land of bridges, I see this on a regular basis
I can't help thinking while watching this --- if some piece of heavy machinery were to be driven along that lane, it and the entire rest of the lane that is hanging on would plummet to the sea.
This will take the state of California 42 years to repair. And at a cost of 6.7 billion dollars they'll fund with bonds, measures and initiatives.
Don't forget the environmental impact studies
How in God's name does it seem okay to build a road right in the edge of a cliff?
Are you kidding? Amazing beautiful ocean views, a very long North - South highway, and little restaurants and businesses along the way is why. Once every few years the road is temporarily closed due to rock slides or, in this case, erosion taking a chunk out. All the wonderfulness is worth the occasional inconvenience.
It's spectacular. The most beautiful drive you can imagine.
How about when the fog rolls in and you can't see the edge of the road?@@willieverusethis
@@willieverusethis I've driven that road.
Cannot understand the highways here, there’s a lot of space where the mountain is but they have to construct highways along the cliff!
How smart is that and they know that the soil can erode so easily!
Back when it was built, they were over a mile from the cliff. Al Gore predicted this.
OH, MY GOODNESS! How do you fix that??
Beautiful place. Hopefully they can find a way to make it safer in the future. Hopefully no one was injured.
Building anything on the edge is the dumbest thing ever.
Bike toured this stretch of Highway 1 over three times, was radical for such amazing views and topography, it is shocking, but could not say I ever thought is was invincible. Hope no one was hurt by the event, very formidable.
Oops thought it was south of Wrstport, did bicycle tour this once though, quite amazing.
How are we gonna play Need 4 Speed now
I was always told by my California peeps "someday this state will slide into the ocean," and so i moved back to Michigan
This looks tough. Will they have to build a large cliff stack or carve out more of the cliff on the inland side?
Have driven that a few times a little scary at its best. Timber Cove south to Russian River is a great drive.
I drove the 1 once from Venice Beach to Carmel in 2009. I was a passenger and drove. It wasn’t enjoyable. Lots of cool spots along the way, tho.
“Chunks” PLURAL!! More is gone now than when I first saw it earlier!
Why are the roads built so close to the ocean!
How is it news that a highway on a cliff collapsed? It’s like when people build next to a river and then are shocked when it floods. And we humans think that we’re so smart lol.