12/26/12 Road and Weather Conditions Updates

11 am – from our local CHP (in comments below):

“Hi Kate, This slide is at Partington Ridge Road. They don’t have an estimated time to open the road, they’ll know more in a few hours. NO ONE IS BEING ALLOWED THROUGH RIGHT NOW. NO ONE! They are putting equipment in place to get started.

Ben”
9:30 am – all local stations reporting Highway One closed, with no ETA for opening.

8:30 – that blue skies didn’t last long, up here, anyway.

7:30 am – blue skies – great news for CT. NWS continues scattered shower activity over most of the region.

Detail Information
6:51 AM 4 [10] 1039 ETAC OFCR CROSSON
6:45 AM 3 [7] SIG ALERT SENT
6:36 AM 2 [4] THERE IS NO ETA FOR OPENING AT THIS TIME
6:35 AM 1 [1] **HWY 1 IS CLOSED **

Unknown at this time whether this is the Partington Slide, or another, as Partington wasn’t being reported by CHP yesterday afternoon and evening. It is listed as 23 mm 1, which would be Lucia.

There were periods of extremely heavy rainfall here last night, beginning around six pm, so this could be anywhere. My rain gauge is showing just under an inch. Will update as I obtain more information.

bigsurkate

Appointed appellate counsel for indigent defendants (retired.) I have lived in Big Sur since 1984, first on the north coast, and on the South Coast since 1989.

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  • I don't know that I've ever seen a more beautful dawn. The sun, on a fully dark gray sky, had lit a patch of cloud the color of apricots! The fog was moving in increasingly, and rain starting again, brief respite, and that wonderful eerily bright light emerging where the colors are so intensified along with every molecule of air....the gold trees by the orange bridge, bright green of the meadow, silver Dusty Miller...all of it tempered by worry for Big Sur. It's such a mix, the drama of weather and the undercurrent of dread. Stay safe and warm you all. May the roads live.

  • Hi Kate, This slide is at Partington Ridge Road. They don't have an estimated time to open the road, they'll know more in a few hours. NO ONE IS BEING ALLOWED THROUGH RIGHT NOW. NO ONE! They are putting equipment in place to get started.

    Ben

    • Thanks so much for the update, Ben... Will copy and post to mail post so people don't miss it.

      bigsurkate, on a mountain top in Big Sur

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