Storm washes out section of Highway 1 along Big Sur coast
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- čas přidán 28. 01. 2021
- California Highway Patrol Sergeant John Yerace describes the moment he discovered the road was swept into the ocean as a result of a winter storm that delivered heavy rains, debris flow and damage across the northern half of the Golden State.
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Such a soothing voice.
His voice does not match his face
Lived in Big Sir for a few years, this happens EVERY year nothing new.
Locks like a good place to put in a bridge over troubled waters, and leave the gully alone. That’s what they did a few years ago on hwy 49 north of Nevada City. It worked very well and was both cheaper and faster than trying to rebuild a mountain side.
So you think this place is STABLE enough for a bridge?!?! You must sell bridges.
Judging from some of the comments below, and for those that have never driven the full Pacific Coast Highway between Big Sur and San Simeon they wouldn't realize that it's the most protected and beautiful land in the world. If nothing else its sheer beauty that no photographs can duplicate, as you have to drive the route to experience it and its natural and artistic history to the fullest.
Many famous people have lived along this route especially the Big Sur region. Who would not know the likes of Orson Welles and his wife Rita Hayworth purchasing their Beach home in South Big Sur in the mid-1940s, soon to sell it to a family that redeveloped it into one of the most famous restaurants on the West Coast - Nepenthe.
Jack Kerouac finished his book - On the Road in this location, as he holed up in an old loaned beach cabin from friends near the North boundary of Big Sur, the Bixby Canyon Bridge.
The famous Henry Miller, writer of lascivious autobiographicals as love novels in the early 20th century, lived down the street from the Nepenthe Restaurant and hung out there regularly in the 1950s. [Photographs on the walls inside the restaurant show some of these great 20th century artists of the region.]
The famous acting couple, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton made what was then thought of as a rather cheesy love story movie, The Sandpiper, here. But it was beautifully filmed in 1965 in the Big Sur area and it played up the life of artists greatly.
For those that have never driven this beautiful route, nor lived in the area, they would not know that people fly from around the world to just take the drive for about 50 to 100 miles, [either from Los Angeles heading Northbound or from San Francisco heading Southbound.] Even the visiting Italians, that I have stopped and talked to along the way have said that this highway is a more beautiful oceanside highway than anything surrounding Italy on the Mediterranean.
I take a road trip to the region every winter from my original hometown in Portland Oregon.
See this article that was written up some years ago in the mid-20-teen years as they built this beautiful Pitkin Curve Bridge and Rain Rock Shed, south of Big Sur in near the same region that this current landslide has occurred which is a much smaller event compared to why they built the beautiful addition and opened it in 2014. I discovered the rain Rock shed thinking it was a collapsed Castle from the Dark Ages sitting on the highway as I drove toward and heading south to LA in 2014. I just passed through it again a couple years ago as several of us local artists in Portland Oregon were asked to go make a large painting somewhere along the Pacific coast. All of the other local artists chose our local area on the Oregon coast but I was the only one that drove to Big Sur to make my painting.
The California Highway designs and patrol is probably the best maintained in the world.
I would have linked my own photos from many photo albums that I have in Facebook, but this article has much more in-depth information about how the state handles and enhances places along this highway with such beautiful natural architectural highway artwork.
www.discover-central-california.com/rain-rocks-rock-shed.html
Yes, that is true. It's beautiful, once you've seen it, you'll want to go back forever. from Hungary
Just the beginning
Well done Mr. Police Officer!
Proactive saves lives, reactive loses them. See: Trumps Covid "plan"
@@chriskelly6559
Losing that hard on will do you good! 🤣😃😂😁😆
Sad for California, they’re going through so much. I’ve been on that road several times. It’s hard to see how they can fix that. And likely it will crumble in other areas as well. Hope that there were no victims in that collapse
They have plenty of money from their insane taxes, they’ll be fine
Being from California this is the least of our issues. Taxes and radical leftists are ruining the state.
@@MrGoodeats If you're complaining about the left then move to Texas or Nevada lol. What do you expect from Cali.
Good God. This is insane. There is no way to move forward. We’re at a moment in time where the collapse of a roadway due to weather conjures up complaints about radical political such and such. We are so completely screwed. Nothing good can happen going forward.
@@ascent8487 It's even in the animal rescue videos..
OMG power of Mother Nature!
Looks so scary
Yep
Luckily no one was on that portion of the road at that time! At least that I heard of? But just imagine you're driving along and you come up on this! especially if you're speeding.
I was thinking the same thing!
I used to live in that area and traveled on Highway 1 often.
People fly down that Highway despite the twists and turns and cliffs on the other side. Crazy!
The road is monitored pretty well and blocked off at appropriate spots. There aren't many roads in between Big Sur and Cambria. And speeding on that stretch is foolish anyway.
I see water running 😶
Why would you put a roadway in the path or running water...
Thats Crazy! Glad no one was hurt
I would never ever drive through there knowing what I know about this bridge. Plus the fact it has happen before too? Even if it is repaired whose to say that next time e the whole entire side of the mountain could Ave right on in and drag you right on out to see.
We drive down every few months. And there are earthquakes, too. No tornados or hurricanes or dust storms though. Pick your beauty, pick your poison.
Engineers are so smart. They know just where to put the dirt.
Right across the gully. What could go wrong?
Just got done filming this road weeks before it collapsed. So glad I did. Who knows how long it will be before the road is operational again? Glad I got to ride it while I still had the chance.
Any 4x4’ers thinking what I’m thinking? Just drive around it lol...
The seabees would put a bridge over that in ten minutes...
CanDo!
California government employee Unions don't roll that way.
And they would return again and again until they realized they didn't know how to do it here. Fifty miles of road from Big Sur to Ragged Point and the majority of it looks like the pictures of the latest slide, or the ones before it
The Highway Patrolman "noticed" that PCH had fallen into the ocean. The understatement of the year.
How do you fix something that big?
I have heard the people in Big Sur kinda like when this happens. You don’t move to Big Sur to live in a throbbing metropolis.
Im sad.. This is the most beautiful part of earth...
Imagine having that collapse While driving over it? Most important nobody injured
Only an idiot would drive through water rushing across the road
If water wants to flow there, a bridge or at least a pipeline is advisable.
I drove there in 2016 ... it is a beautiful area.
Take a closer look at the terrain there - neither is viable pre-washout. Predicting where might be next is just a gigantic gamble.
@@redcatsretreat2011 you can look at the steepest gradients and previous debris from flash flooding and adjust accordingly :) Putting a concrete pipe under the road is not just a huge investment.
@@andraslibal Please come visit. You will undoubtedly enjoy the 50 miles between Big Sur State Park (or Nepenthe Restaurant, a great starting place) and Ragged Point (a decent but expensive and frilly motel and restaurant). You will also, undoubtedly, see on the left side of your car (driving from Big Sur) terrain very much like the pictures of the slide. Fifty miles. I haven't counted the areas that might slide and the direction they might take before hitting the road, but I'm pretty sure CalTrans and CHP have done so.
And, btw, the drive up (North) from Big Sur to Carmel is pretty interesting, including the famous Bixby Bridge. If you do visit, contact me to find a nice bypass with great views of that bridge from the hills out into the ocean.
@@redcatsretreat2011 thank you for the invite :) I have driven on Highway 1 several times, once when I was very young and just started my PhD in the US and lately itz was a part of a 28 day road trip I took in the SouthWest in 2016. I hope to make it again some day. Greetings from Eastern Europe.
@@andraslibal Excellent. If you visit again, I would enjoy meeting you. May I guess as to your country? Hungary, perhaps? lol - The closest I've been to Eastern Europe was Vienna :)
Another year or two before we can get to that area again.
It's already open, Julian.
Perfect metaphor for the state of CA.
What decades of forestry mismanagement causes.
Volim Kaliforniju ,moj sin zivi tamo .Kalifornija je prelepa i zao mi sto se to desilo.Odron se desio i kad smo mi isli kolima za L.A.,morali se vracati drugim putem!Lowe Californiju end pipl
I look forward to seeing the new bridge. There's no way they're putting that dirt back.
and libs don't have any plan or policies to prevent it, just like forest fires, all they do is waste billions of tax money
@@JH-bb8in At least they are not trying to increase the problems like some retarded conspiracy theorists that have been seen in US politics lately.
@@57thorns the truth is that foreign trolls are instigating most of our division (China, Russia)
@@JH-bb8in There has to be a weakness to exploit, or those trolls would be laughed out of the (virtual) room. And seeing people at the top buying into it clearly shows that there is something rotten in the Republic.
@@57thorns there's natural divisions in every country - but social media and foreign trolls really added gas to the fire.
Take forever to get to 7-11 now.
Bixby south?
What a beautiful scenery before the crash tho.
I was about to drive there in few hours. But I changed
So 😥 sad!
It's going to be a very long time to fix
I wouldn't drive on that road on a good day
Me either, no guard rails to keep someone from dying.
it's actually the most breathtakingly beautiful drive
On Jan. 22, 1959, miners drilled too close to the bed of the huge Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania causing the ceiling to collapse. The river flowed into the mines, which were interconnected. There was a whirlpool where the river water was filling all the mines. The hole was plugged by dumping railroad cars into the vortex and then, I believe, rocks and soil. You can look up the Knox Mine disaster to see amazing pics. This is a harder job but at some point I think they'll need to dump lots of rock and dirt in.
So sad I was there in 2008 tried to get there again 2019 but never got to it
Come back. It's open.
@@redcatsretreat2011 what? They fixed it already
@@redcatsretreat2011 now there's the covid
They need to stabilize this freeway more than what it is and I can see how the road corroded the only thing I see is a road slab I don’t see no metal bars connected underneath the road I don’t see deep side barrier dug into place in case of a mudslide
Install a Bailey bridge in that spot, until you can build a more permanent bridge. That area is a drainage channel, and any fill you place there will be washed out the next time a big storm comes along.
I have a feeling this will never be repaired.
Are you really Tom Cruise?
"Yesterday I noticed the road fell into the ocean"
He's obviously a genius 😆
Imagine if he wouldn't have noticed. SMH. Lmao
wow
I wonder if someone fell over , in the middle of the night
0:02 he said it was closed prior to the storm coming through.
@Rebecca Oglesby seriously?
Gonna need a bridge now.
Imagine if someone was speeding there 😳
😲 Will take quite a few boulders to fill that up
Ahh I see the problem, I think part of the road is missing
He “noticed”. Master of understatement.
It will be a few years before its repaired.
Leave California now!!! Just do it
Over half of Californians have all moved North to Portland Oregon for the past several decades.
You can also read about this history as it was predicted over 45 years ago in the famous book written at Berkeley University by Ernest Callenbach, Ecotopia, ©1975...
One day all the world's roads will lead to Portland Oregon as it will become the new capital city of the new Nation, named Cascadia, or the new Country of Jefferson.
That cop looks like michael from gta 5 lmao
Our Gas Tax $$$ going hard to work. 🙃🙃🙃
Best thing about California was seeing it in my rear view mirror.
Where did you move to?
You dishonor the name.
What happens when a big earthquake happens? There is a big one expected soon.
I drive big truck so I don’t need to worry about roads
Now if the rest of the state would follow hwy 1s lead!
Make a new road further inland
Maybe there are some places a tourist road shouldn't exist, but it would be political WWIII if someone seriously suggests abandoning Highway 1 as a connection between north and south.
Alll, just wear the mask and go on !
Think of the Moon getting a new crater. 👽
Time for some "bridge building"
or go around it, cutting away the hillside. I have never trusted Cal Trans anyway, bunch of morons IMO.
The new fashion of killing🥺
Shut it down
Words Of Prophet William Marrion Branham
191 I remember, just my last Message in California, where I thought I’d never go back again, when I predicted, “Los Angeles will go beneath the ocean. THUS SAITH THE LORD.” It will. She is done. She is washed. She is finished. What hour? I don’t know when, but it will be sunk. Right after that, the earthquakes begin to jolt and bow.
65-1204 - The Rapture
Rev. William Marrion Branham
OJ did it!
They can just build a bridge
not that easy!
@@lt4324 yeah but they can’t put the dirt back and fix it either
@@marionunez4432 my guess, blowing away the hillside and have the road run further next to the hillside.
That hole is nuthin for them Duke boys.....😃
Bit of duct tape and it’ll be like new.
I want that contract !!!!
Mr personality.
This is why we need flying cars, Joby.
TYPICAL OF KALIFORNIA....GOING TO HELL
Mother Nature VS Highway 1
My money is on Mother Nature...
I don't like drones, but this is an instance where it's necessary to use a drone, I can't stand drones invading privacy of people in their homes and or private property.
Hwy 1 is Nonessential. They will be hearing from the California governor soon.
You have never visited Big Sur?
@@MarkSeibold nope, haven't ever planned to either. There is a scenic seacliffside road in PR I've driven several times. Now I'm thinking about hiking it too.
We all hoped Californication will fall into the ocean. Now it is happening.
You have the greatest answer to all these problems and it comes straight from the State of California.... Kamala Harris. She helped California so much before and she has all the answers now.
TRUMP Supporters: Fake News: that road is not washed out...
Don't worry, that will buff out.
theres nothing out there they should close the road permanently.
231 Thou city, who claims to be the city of the Angels, who has exalted yourself into heaven, and sent all the dirty, filthy things of fashions and things, till even the foreign countries come here to pick up our filth and send it away, to your fine churches and steeples, and so forth, the way you do. Remember, one day you’ll be laying in the bottom of the sea, your great honeycomb under you right now. The wrath of God is belching right beneath you. How much longer He will hold this sandbar hanging out over that? When, that ocean out yonder, a mile deep, will slide in there, plumb back to the Salton Sea. It’ll be worse than the last day of Pompeii. Repent, Los Angeles.
232 Repent, the rest of you, and turn to God. The hour of His wrath is upon the earth. Flee while there’s time to flee, and come into Christ.
65-0429E - The Choosing Of A Bride
Rev. William Marrion Branham
His voice does not match his face
No state deserves this more.
Thank you for your kind comments, you pathetic bitch
This is in one of the most beautiful places on earth, the Big Sur coast...t His happens when mountains meet the ocean....
Doris Thomson
Sounds like you are deserving of the blessings you dish out.