2:30 pm – It started hailing here about 2:00 and it has continued for almost 1/2 an hour and continues. The sun is shining. It is significant. Pics to follow, a bit at a time because 1. I am still taking them, and 2. The Internet has become persnickety. There are sparkles of mother natures diamonds everywhere! At 3:00 pm, the hail continues, and I continue to try to add photos as I can. Still hailing 1 and 1/4 hours later. I’ve never seen it hail this much for this long up here!
I stopped posting all the standard ones that offer no new information, but this one does. There are no closures from 12/23 through New Year’s. Yeah!
** UPDATE #9 **
HIGHWAY 1/ROCKY CREEK VIADUCT PROJECT IS UNDERWAY—
DAYTIME ROADWORK AND OVERNIGHT CLOSURES CONTINUE
MONTEREY COUNTY – Daytime roadwork continues next week from 7 am to 5 pm Monday, Dec. 17 through Friday, Dec. 21. Overnight closures of Highway 1 at Rocky Creek (Mile Marker 59.5), between Big Sur and Carmel are scheduled for five nights starting from Sunday, Dec. 16 through Thursday, Dec. 20 (finishing Friday am) from 9 pm to 7 am each night. There will be NO overnight closures from Sunday, Dec. 23 through Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013.
Up here, at 10:00am, it is 33 degrees. No snow yet, but I’m watching. I have a USFS announcement to post on that page, photos of the fuel mitigation project to post on that page, and a review of Big Sur’s newest radio station to post, but sluggish or non-existent Internet has made it all impossible, for now. If any of the information were critical, I would drive somewhere to get them posted, as I would with road closures or fires, but baby it is COLD outside. I’m not going anywhere, right now! UPDATE – USFS press release up on its page and photos up on the Fuel Mitigation page. That leaves only the radio review!
11:30 pm – road still closed, and lots of rumors flying around re when it will open, but nothing definitive.
I have included a photo of the trees from the midcoastfirebrigade website. Amazing domino effect.
Incident: 00266 Type: Traffic Hazard Location: SR1/PALO COLORADO TBM/LatLon: 0:0
Detail Information
10:40 AM8[18] [Notification] [CHP]-1039 CAL FIRE, THEY ARE 97 ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF TREE , ,OTHER ENGINE ALSO ENRT / PGandE WILL 97 AT 1106 HRS
10:39 AM7[17] A27-014 REQ 1020 FIRE
10:39 AM6[16] A27-014 IF FIRE IS ON OPPOSITE SIDE, THEY SHOULD NOT ADVANCE, HOT WIRES
10:30 AM5[15] 1039 MONTCOM
10:28 AM4[10] 27-014 DOES NOT HAVE VISUAL ON FIRE
10:26 AM3[8] A27-014 PALO COLORADO 1/2 MILE EO SR1 3-4 FT IN DIAMITER 1125 POWER LINES DOWN PGE 97 NTFY FIRE
10:18 AM2[7] [Notification] [CHP]-[6] PER FIRE CHIEF /REQ CHP C3/MOTORISTS TRYING TO PASS UNDER TREE AND WIRES
10:18 AM1[6] PER FIRE CHIEF /REQ CHP C3/MOTORISTS TRYING TO PASS UNDER TREE AND WIRES
Unit Information
10:08 AM3Unit Assigned
10:08 AM2Unit Enroute
10:08 AM1Unit At Scene
This was taken at the Post Ranch Inn on 12/3/12 by Jeanne Cowen. Isn’t she gorgeous?
This is what happened to a private road in Big Sur
These photographs were taken this morning by impetuous son …
Been trying to post this on and off all day! grrrr…The rest of the day, I took off from blogging. Cal Trans announcement, Highway One officially opened again at 6:45 am. (But you will note from a post at 10:45 pm, it was unofficial ly open much earlier!)
Tomorrow, I’ll be braving Mud Creek, which has been moving a bit lately.
10:30 pm – local says GBS cleared boulder and were letting people through. It is still “officially” closed as far as I know.
9:15 pm – NOTICE – Just got a call from CT PR, Collin Jones. A slide at Rain Rocks, MM 21has the highway closed From Ragged Point to Big Sur MM 71 to 41. Will reassess the situation in the am. I’ll keep you all updated. One can get to big Sur and Lucia from the north, but not from the south.
Thanks bigsurdeb for having my back and being this blog’s incredible back-up! You mean the world to us!
Kate was contacted by Caltrans that Hwy One is closed at Rain Rocks to Ragged Point and will re-evaluate in the morning and notify when open.
