Posted on 05/26/2019 6:48:34 PM PDT by MtnClimber
DOLORES, Colo. (KKTV) - Boulders weighing a combined 10 million pounds destroyed a stretch of highway in southwestern Colorado and have left road crews with a daunting cleanup job.
"It’s truly mind-boggling that something that big came down," said Mike McVaugh, CDOT Regional Transportation director for southwest Colorado. McVaugh spoke with 11 News sister station CBS Denver about the job ahead.
The massive boulders were part of a rockslide Friday afternoon that rendered part of Highway 145 impassable. The slide left behind an 8-foot-deep trench where pavement once was.
According to CDOT, the trench was caused by the biggest boulder to fall, which weighs a whopping 8.5 million pounds and is roughly the size of a house. A second boulder landed on the highway that weighs 2.3 [million] pounds. Cleanup crews were dispatched immediately after the slide.
"They sent a plow truck out, they sent a supervisor out. They showed up on site and they were like, ‘That’s not going to work. We’ve got some really big rocks here,’” McVaugh said. “[The boulders] came off a cliff band about 850 feet above the highway."
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That could chip your windshield!
You’re gonna need a bigger truck...
Psst: Someone tell the Editor - Every 2000 pounds = 1 Ton
I’m positive that this is the work of one Mr. Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius.
These people went to journalism school. They could not do the math if someone gave them the formula,
Yeah, but a million pounds sounds
more impressive than five hundred tons.
Time to drill and blast.
160 million ounces of boulders
Definitely....
When I was estimating driveways, Harry Home Owner was much more impressed when I would tell him it would take FIFTY THOUSAND pounds of asphalt to do the job-of course 25 tons is also impressive but tons is Greek to them while they look at the 20 pound bag of dog food.
Would also come up with a price like 2348 dollars...you can then give an auto discount or give the impression that you have taken every last penny out that you were able to.
Same as baseball, I tell them to think singles, the rest will fall in AND when a ground ball hit in your direction, dive for it.
Once in a while you will get lucky and stop something but it ALWAYS looks like you are giving 125%..
Appearance is everything....HA HA
I think I can make out which boulder they’re talking about.
I think the description, “it’s as big a a house”, works better than millions of pounds. Folks can relate to a house size.
A little gravel, a little asphalt and it will be good as new.
Ok, since I am trying to decide between concrete and asphalt (PNW location but on the dry side of mountains), which should it be? TIA
I get that, but it also makes it sound like it was written by a 2nd grader.
“These people went to journalism school. They could not do the math if someone gave them the formula”,
It’s pitiful. I told the girl in a donut shop that I wanted “half a dozen” of a certain donut and she asked me “what is half a dozen”?
They should have used Grams! That would be even more impressive!
It won’t buff out?
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