Slabs of earth crashed Wednesday into Highway 178 and caused its closure until at least Friday, according to the California Department of Transportation. Dirt flooded the road and small rocks littered the area.
Slabs of earth crashed Wednesday into Highway 178 and caused its closure until at least Friday, according to the California Department of Transportation. Dirt flooded the road and small rocks littered the area.
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Crashing rocks Wednesday blocked Highway 178, seemingly loosened from rain over the weekend.
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A mountainside displays a nearly clean cut Wednesday seemingly where slabs of earth were loosened by rain and fell onto Highway 178.
Courtesy of the California Department of Transportation
Californians welcomed a reprieve from historic rainfall that pummeled the state but its wrath didn’t leave Kern County untouched and required clean-up crews to heave boulders from roads, vacuum water and repair a sinkhole.
Kern River Valley residents narrowly escaped rocks crashing onto Highway 178, which prompted the highway’s closure Wednesday by the California Department of Transportation until at least Friday. A Caltrans spokesman confirmed by email preliminary reviews showed incessant rain led to giant slabs of earth falling.
