BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: January 21, 2012 04:21AM
Typo on the title, sorry.
Just south of town here and the only road connecting us to south county. Not
good.
woberto Report This Comment Date: January 21, 2012 05:15AM
Engineering fail?
pro_junior Report This Comment Date: January 21, 2012 07:55AM
this is fairly common here in the pacific northwest...
recently there has been alot of rain in a short time around Salem, OR, which is
if I'm not mistaken, closer to blah than to myself...there's been quite a bit of
flooding of the small creeks all around that area over the last couple days.
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: January 21, 2012 06:02PM
I'm in Newport now. I think we're about the same distance from Salem in air
miles.
PJ is absolutely right, the road erosion is pretty common, especially here along
the coast. I don't think there's a lot engineers can do to avoid it without
driving up the costs of roads sky high. This one is also a difficult location
for working on due to the terrain. It's down to one lane of course. There was a
worse one in north county where the road sunk and a semi trailer got stuck high
centered there. Road was closed for several hours.
We definitely didn't get it as bad as the valley did but we got hammered pretty
hard here on the coast especially from the winds. Some locations recorded gusts
well above 100mph. All the rivers in the county flooded too. Where we used to
live in Tidewater along the Alsea river was completely flooded. I'm sure glad
we're not there now.