Kuwait Times

Massive slide buries stretch of highway

- LOS ANGELES:

A massive rockslide has buried a stretch of California’s iconic seaside Highway 1 which had already been hit by a number of road closures caused by severe winter storms, state transporta­tion officials said Tuesday. The slide on one of America’s most picturesqu­e highways took place on Saturday morning in a remote and largely uninhabite­d area known as Mud Creek. The road in that section of the highway had already been shut down before a million tons of earth came tumbling down from a hillside, burying a 1,500-foot section of the highway, said Jim Shivers, a spokesman for the state’s transporta­tion agency. “We’re looking at a road closure of several months,” he said. “This is a very, very big event... and it’s something that we really haven’t seen before. We have a lot of work to do.” He said the scale of the slide was such that the wall of rock and dirt that cascaded down the slope continued down to the ocean floor 250 feet off the shoreline.

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