Devil's Slide

Well, the winter wasn't too bad, but the Spring - Yikes! March was the wettest since they started keeping records. So of course - what time is it? Time for Devil's Slide to slide. They closed the road on Sunday and there's no estimate of when it might reopen. Days? Weeks? No telling.

Here's what that notorious section of road (the same section that slipped in '95 and closed the road for 150 days) looked like yesterday. Big boulders keep falling down from the mountainside above.














And then there's the little crack - that keeps getting bigger.














Oh, and this little stretch of road where the crack is opening is about 450 feet above the ocean on a sheer cliff.

So what? Well, with this stretch of road closed, the already busy commute from the coast to the other side of the mountain has gone from slow to 'ohmygod' since there used to be two roads out of the coast and now all must go over the single remaining road: 30 minute commutes turn into 2 hour commutes.

Everyone is developing their strategy: hit the road by 6am at the latest or wait until 10am? Same deal with coming home.