I-80 Closed between Truckee and CA/NV border

Local TV News

[Godzilla]

Sacramento area TV news is reporting that I-80 between Truckee and the CA/NV border is closed due to a massive mudslide. Caltrans estimates closure for several days until cleaned up.

[Tijeras_Slim]

There's goes your weekend in Winnemuca.

[RGSpincich]

Bummer. Taking Hwy. 50 around Lake Tahoe is quite a long cut.

[mtbopfuyn]

The coyotes are deeply saddened.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Tough break, especially if your name is Donner.

[Godzilla]

Roads along the western side of Tahoe partially open due to mudslides. Truckee CHP is concerned about Hwy 50 due to forest fires and associated mud/landslides.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Tough break, especially if your name is Donner.

Pass me a drumstick, will ya?

[alice_in_bubbaland]

That's nothing, I-80 here in NW NJ (Exit 12 or 19) is shut down, virtually, on a daily basis due to incompetent drivers. Every other day there is an overturned truck, bus or multi car pile up! This morning is no exception with an overturned car around exit 19.

On a serious note: I wish all travelers on I-80 in Nevada a safe passage!

[varina davis]

I drove alone over the Donner Pass one winter in a whiteout with no snow tires and sandwiched between two 18-wheelers. Closest I ever came to a total nervous breakdown.

[Strategerist]

I lived much of my life next I-80 in Pennsylvania, it's somehow weird to think of it extending 3,000 miles.

John McPhee wrote a brilliant series of books where he went west on I-80 across the whole country with a series of geologists, I suspect he probably described the area of this landslide in "Assembling California."

[Godzilla]

John McPhee wrote a brilliant series of books where he went west on I-80 across the whole country with a series of geologists, I suspect he probably described the area of this landslide in "Assembling California."

Although I've read that book too, I don't remember the landslide section. However, there are numerous areas in the Sierras that are prone to landslides during these events. Also abundant locations in the Coastal Ranges due to tectonically oversteepened hillsides.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I lived much of my life next I-80 in Pennsylvania

It's hard to imagine 3000 miles of potholes.

[WestCoastGal]

PING

[NewMexLurker]

"Flying by Winnemuca, doing about ninety-five.
Automatic cruise control, it's good to be alive."

By Southern Pacific

[Mike Darancette]

John McPhee wrote a brilliant series of books where he went west on I-80 across the whole country with a series of geologists,

McPhee described a Nevada encounter with a UFO that really sets one to wondering.

[ridesthemiles]

There's goes your weekend in Winnemuca.""

There are far worse places to spend a weekend.

When the rodeo is in town, Winnemucca is happening!!!

[Tijeras_Slim]

It's a veritable metropolis compared to Tijeras.

[socal_parrot]

The Reno casinos are deeply saddened.

[ridesthemiles]

Although I've read that book too, I don't remember the landslide section. However, there are numerous areas in the Sierras that are prone to landslides during these events. Also abundant locations in the Coastal Ranges due to tectonically oversteepened hillsides.""

This is the section that burned in June on 2001. The environazis filed suit in court to keep the loggers from salvaging the downed and charred wood. Millions of dollars of more fuel for future fires. Mud cascading down because new trees haven't been planted. Logging operations are required to plane 7 trees for every one tree taken.
So- no revenue from logging damaged trees, no new trees planted 4 years ago, and now a mudslide that could close the highway for days and days.
This section of the I-80 corridor between Reno and Sacramento has as many as 2000 truck an hour going both directions- 2 lanes each way except on the uphills, where it spreads to 3 or 4 lanes.
The option to go across on 50 isn't very viable. Slides there, also in this rain.

[milagro]

Going north from Winnemuca at night you can see the headlights of a car coming toward you--and it can take half an hour before the car passes you--even doing 95!