Gimme a big ole HOLY CRAP to this one! Last night at about 10:30 a huge chunk of mountainside crumbled and fell onto the highway, railroad, and into the ocean about 10km from my house. Pieces of rock the size of big trucks fell, thankfully not injuring any commuters! A bus was driving by as the slide started and thankfully the driver hit the gas and got through with all the windows broken on one side. Transportation officials are saying the road will be closed for at least 5 days! This highway is pretty much the only route to Squamish/Whistler, so everyone there is stranded until then, unless they want to drive through BC's interior! Thankfully for me, the slide happened North of us, or we would be stranded too....but on the other hand I would be missing work....lol!
Look how big the rocks are compared to the massive truck to the left!
They are going to start to blast the rocks apart and push them into the ocean below!
Scary!
4 comments:
oh my how scary!
Yeah, it is ALL over the news. Helicopters have been flying back and forth all day. I am just happy Pemberton Fest is over(40,000 people at 3 day concert event last weekend north of the slide!). Can you imagine 40,000 people trying to get home? ACK!
OMG! That is awful! So, that would be the same highway they will be using for the Olympics? Maybe they should just widen it while they're at it :)
Yep that is the road to Whistler. There is another route, but it takes over 10 hours through the interior. The media is all over this "blah blah blah what about 2010?" The road is closed over the long weekend!
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