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1+ million tons of rock covers California's famed coastal highway in Big Sur

thermalben started the topic in
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 Wednesday, 24 May 2017 at 12:36 pm

This is staggering!

The weekend slide in Big Sur buried a portion of Highway 1 under a 40-foot layer of rock and dirt and changed the coastline below to include what now looks like a rounded skirt hem, Susana Cruz, a spokeswoman with the California Department of Transportation, said Tuesday.

Full story: https://apnews.com/e0a10c1f886d45cfab6eb543ceb1ef40/Massive-slide-burie…

https://imgur.com/WUNQSwy.jpg

thermalben Wednesday, 24 May 2017 at 12:37 pm new

Video footage:

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/867175958578704385/pu/vid/1280x720…

nogo Wednesday, 24 May 2017 at 04:01 pm new

Faaaark! Thats a lot of dirt!!

mowgli Thursday, 25 May 2017 at 04:45 pm new

Flippin'ell. I was driving along there almost exactly 12 months ago.

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