New Slide Isolates Big Creek

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• Thank you, Kate, for the service you provide to the Big Sur community. You are a reliable and dedicated advocate and faithful reporter.

• I'll second Susan!

  Rotten rock with lots of fissures to speed up infiltration/percolation. Signs of "lesser" failures and/or grading within the catchment area might magnify the accumulation of water at the point where the cracks are tighter, allowing a prolonged saturated condition at the point (depth) of failure?

  Is it safe for "clean-up" work? Are there any other slopes (approx. 1 1/2:1 or steeper) primed to go?

  I've decided not to drive 1.

• I wonder when repair of HWY 1 become a ‘fools errand’? So many points of failure from rain impacts and repeated fires. Now imagine an earthquake. Maybe consider a reopening of the old Coast Rd from Ventana/Post Ranch intersection past Cone Peak to Nacimiento Ferguson Rd. Tourists would love it.

• These photos reminded Sandra of the book "Angle of Repose" by Wallace Stegner.

• Ms. Mackenzie, remember the April Fools issue of the MC Weekly a couple of years ago, that Caltrans had decided to abandon Hwy. 1 ? Very funny at the time but maybe prescient.