Teardrops n Tiny Travel Trailers

by **Corwin C** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 1:20 pm

For anyone visiting South-Central Utah, state road 14 east of Cedar City will be closed for some time in the future. The last report that I received is that the slide is still in motion (it started Saturday before daylight).

This isn't just a cleanup issue, as you can see, the road is GONE.

by **Verna** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 1:21 pm

Oops...I think Mother Nature sort of "sneezed"

Verna

by **Wolffarmer** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 1:39 pm

Wow, had to blink a few times and tilt my head to figure out what I was looking at.

Randy

by **gregp136** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 3:43 pm

Nature Always Wins.

Greg(and Laurie)

by **Mightydog** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 4:18 pm

A little gravel and road patch and it will be just fine.

by **robfisher** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 5:40 pm

Reminds me of the 1983 Hiway6/89 slide at Thistle burying the railroad, creating a lake and closeing the road for months.

I feel the earth move.

http://homepage.mac.com/venitar/Utah/wT ... istle.html

by **48Rob** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 7:07 pm

...Sometimes I'm thankful I live in a very flat State :shock:

Very pretty place though.

Rob

by **stumphugger** » Tue Oct 11, 2011 9:09 am

Mightydog wrote:A little gravel and road patch and it will be just fine.

The fix joke here goes, "Just ramp over it." Which means just take a dozer or excavator and push a steep road over the top and down the other side. (kind of a forest road engineer joke)

by **absolutsnwbrdr** » Tue Oct 11, 2011 9:19 am

Nature just wanted to give you a detour. I see the road, just there to the right a bit. :shock:

by **Wolffarmer** » Tue Oct 11, 2011 12:11 pm

Robfisher, Thanks for that link. I too also thought of the Thistle slide.

The day after they first got a road opened up over it, I went on it on my 1983 Suzuki Katana. The first of the crotch rocket motorcycles. It was almost a racing bike with a license plate.

Any who, the road was mostly a dirt path going over the slide. It was storming, wind and rain. Late March and cold. Bulldozers was pushing rocks around the size of a small house. Rather exciting slipping around in that mud with a mess of cars.

Randy

by **Corwin C** » Fri Oct 14, 2011 11:47 am

More pictures ... remember not to ever anger or get in the way of Mother Nature. She can definitely ruin your weekend ...

Notice where the slide came from near the top of this image VVVVVVVVVVVVVVV

Latest estimates for repairs are looking at late spring 2012 (as always subject to change.)

by **toolman** » Fri Oct 14, 2011 12:16 pm

Corwin,

Thanks for posting the pictures. Looks like you did a bit of hiking to get them. :twisted:

One question, if you don't mind. What is that white stuff in some of the pictures? Could that be SNOW???!!!

Egad snow on the rooftops already. :lol:

Jerry

by **jss06** » Fri Oct 14, 2011 1:04 pm

From that last picture it looks like that entire section of road is vulnerable to a slide.

by **Corwin C** » Fri Oct 14, 2011 1:34 pm

toolman wrote:Thanks for posting the pictures. Looks like you did a bit of hiking to get them. One question, if you don't mind. What is that white stuff in some of the pictures? Could that be SNOW???!!! Egad snow on the rooftops already.

First, I can't take credit for the pictures. They came from several sources including co-workers, UDOT, Iron County, and several other sources. Yes, there was several inches of snow Wednesday/Thursday (you can see how hard it was on my garden.)

The slide occured Saturday morning, and I believe that the water was the "straw" that brought the slide down. This section of road has had occasional slides in the past, and has been a maintenance issue for the last year or so, however, nothing to this degree.

by **nrody** » Fri Oct 14, 2011 3:49 pm

Very impresive photos.
Quick break out the duct tape! :lol:

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State Road 14 in Southern Utah

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