Landslide buries California’s scenic highway in Big Sur


Pacific coast. Photograph: © SAF — Coastal Care

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A monster of a landslide has buried a quarter-mile section of the scenic coastal highway in California’s Big Sur region, piling fresh misery on a remote area that hasn’t seen the road fully passable for months…

Read Full Article, CNN (05-24-2017)

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