Emergency crews are scrambling to clean up a 150-ft-wide collapsed coastal section of Highway 1 in Monterey County, Calif. with no certain timeline for reopening.
Four years after a massive landslide dumped 5 million cu yd of dirt on Highway 1, closing the vital artery for 14 months, a storm opened up a 150-ft-wide cavity in Monterey County over the weekend of Jan. 30. Rat Creek in the Big Sur area, scarred by the Dolan Fire from last summer, was inundated with water debris, mud and trees and washed out a section of the road.