Posted on 10/03/2007 9:53:41 AM PDT by omega4179
A major road has collapsed, raw footage being shown on Foxnews.com
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Listening on XM, They are talking about Sputnik so I am hoping nobody was injured.
Strange.
Where? When? How? Etc...
How long until Bush gets blamed do you think?
Soledad Mountain collapse, LaJolla, California. North of San Diego.
Bush’s fault :)
Bah. Now they’re going to talk about Brittany Spears...
Wake me when there’s more info on where in California...
looks more like the side of the hill collapsed...
Apparently, this happened in La Jolla (an affluent part of San Diego, for those in Rio Linda).
If its a major road, I can’t imagine no injuries, but we can pray for a miracle.
Anywhere near the Mt Soledad Cross???
That’s bizzare. It’s almost as if a sink hole was forming there.
Looks like a classic washout. Water flowing underground scours out under the roadbed, road collapses.
Broken water/sewer/stormwater/something, I suppose?
Still no info on exact location.
More collapsing stuff. August 14 the Bridge in Minnesota collapsed killing about 35 (counting the missing). Last week the bridge spanning the Mekong River in Can Tho, Viet Nam collapsed killing about 200.
Now a road collapse.
What is going on here?
Global warming?
< /sarcasm>
Why, *Gravity* my friend.
Sorry, couldn't help myself......
“What is going on here?”
Fox Televisions next reality show, “When Good Roads Go Bad”.
Infrastructure does this regularly. The ground seems solid and stable, but it isn't. Roads are always washing out here due to permafrost conditions, but any ground will wash out.
Hey, I took the comma out of the headline, and it's still accurate!
After playing around ON Google Earth - the collapse appears to be on the North side of Soladad Mountain Rd just east of Palomino Circle. About 5-6 houses east of the intersection looks exactly like the 3 houses that were being shown on Fox.
What does Bush know and when did he know it?
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/videostream/11724377/detail.html
Here is some live coverage from the La Jolla (sp) NBC affiliate.
was in LaJolla this summer, once of the prettiest places I have ever seen. However, I did wonder how they kept those houses on those hills.
Gravity would be my guess.
the LA Times has a live video feed
looks like the road (a primary road, not an interstate) collapsed due to undermining by a sink-hole or broken utilities.
the homes to one side have a grade change of about forty feet down to the adjacent parallel street and I imagine it is fairly unstable soil like much of coastal CA
the street was likely built to take into account the poor road-bed subgrade and held while the under mining got worse and worse until a sudden collapse of three to five feet as I estimate it from the video.
Probably too many Mexicans heading north exceeded the weight limit ;-)
try this one
http://www.signonsandiego.com/teaserimages/071003big_soledad021.jpg
it shows a bigger collapse...perhaps what LA Times had is a differnt collapse
“Anywhere near the Mt Soledad Cross???”
No.
My wife and I drive up the hill every day to drop our kids off at school. In this area, the past week or so underground pipelines and stuff began breaking. Geologists and surveyers have been all over the area that collapsed, trying to figure out how to fix the problem. This morning, I noticed a definite change in the middle of the road.
Guess it let go.
Should be fun trying to get my kids to school this afternoon.
signonsandiego has this
Workers manning two drilling rigs to install high-tech earth-measuring devices on Soledad Mountain Road scrambled to safety around 9 a.m. as the ground beneath them suddenly gave way.
“It moved a humongous amount, in the order of tens of feet,” said Rupert Adams, supervising geologist for the Carlsbad firm Helenschmidt Geotechnical. “Fortunately we were able to pull out.”
Adams spoke by cell phone in a Desert View Drive alley below the slide, where he said at least one home had been partly buried under tons of earth from the shifting hillside.
Adams’ firm was hired by the city to measure the extent of what was thought to have been a gradual shifting of the mountain, and to help formulate a plan to fix it.
He said his team and city geologists are now scrambling to figure out how to stop the slide from getting worse.
“We’re just trying to think of what you can do to slow this down,” he said. “It’s complicated, but we may be able to do some things.”
..............................
now, that sounds more like they were drilling to get a few boring samples to figure out how the slow slide or subsidence was happening and perhaps triggered a bigger slide by just their small drilling operation — not an impossibility
Less than a mile away.
Sky hooks
Nam Vet
When you build on unstable land, it is not good.
Can you tell me if this is near the Navy Base or Navy Housing? My daughter is out there and this is about the time that she leaves for work.
Not sure what your talking about.
The link goes to FoxNews web site and the link to the story is right there under Latest News. What else do you want?
I couldn’t get it to open either.
No one has been injured. I’m not sure where the Navy housing is located but I don’t think that it is close to where this is happening.
Hugs to your daughter : )
I was wondering about that too. Mine should be in school though. The Navy put them in this gorgeous house/apartment. They call it a hill but it’s built on a mountain!
If it's in La Jolla, it is nowhere near the base or housing.
I guess Atlas finally shrugged.
Yeah, it say if a road was breaking, it probably would collapse.
I think my DIL goes to school there. Is there another large university around San Diego? Just seems she’s mentioned this town before. I’ll know this evening though. She was really excited about going thru that earthquake several months ago:’)
One of the Navy housing areas (Admiral Hartman) is about a little less than a mile down the hill. It is not in any danger, unless the whole mountain collapses.
The others are scattered all over San Diego. Do you know which housing area your daughter lives in?
>>One of the Navy housing areas (Admiral Hartman) is about a little less than a mile down the hill.<<
Would that be down around Beryl?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
