I was about a mile away when it happened. My dad and I were enroute from Michigan to Blue Ridge, GA and we were to pass that spot. TDOT was rerouting people just up the road because of the slide earlier that morning. Scary to think we were that close and seriously could have been passing it when it happened.
Yeah, but if you've driven on 64 you know there are signs everywhere that say 'watch for falling rocks' still, you only expect A rock, not the entire side of the mountain.
I am all over the roads in tn and nc. this scares me to death. all the rain that we have and lots of snow this year. I think I will just start staying home.
In such cases, they must wait for the pertinent personnel; qualified engineers, or geologists, etc. Anyhow, I believe the area was saturated by recent copious rain; waiting for better weather should have been the next step, and perhaps gradual use of dynamite. To wait for a complete slide, such as the one that happened, is also an option (More or less the first option)
@YDontUSmelWhtUShovln I've driven that road many times. The alternative is a 2 hour detour. In the middle of the mountains, you can't just put a road anywhere.
MaxSafeheaD Hey Dipshit, a few things to bear in mind. First, a survey was done. That's why they moved back and no one was hurt. Second, before commenting that someone is immature you should learn how to spell the word. Third, if you meant "amateur" then see number two.
Canada and USA Rock "brought in contract crews to break it up with an impact hammer. The operater was working directly under the shelf that collapsed less than an hour later" (I was being a little sarcastic)
There was a guy killed on Hwy 70, close to pegram tn. Just out side of nashville. A rock , about the size of the one in this video, fell on top of his pickup. It stopped and crushed his truck, killing him instantly. I think it was in the late 70's or early 80's. The Overhangs on Hwy 70, need to be blasted. I wish TDOT would do something about it. Every year at least 3 or 4 cars are totalled along that stretch of HWY.
--Maybe it's just me. I hope that isn't the case but, when that lady geologist showed up and said that the road must be cleared--do you think those hardcore, crusty old guys took her for her word?? This woman shows up and says that the road isn't safe. She says that another slide is forthcoming. Do you believe her? It doesn't matter. She gave an order. Lady Bateman orders you to move--YOU MOVE!!! Everytime this lady shows up, the only question will be,"What do you want us to do??" : )
A perfect example of the ineptitude that reigns the vast majority of the planet. The so-called competent private contractors should not have attempted destroying the displaced boulder exactly in front where the slide had recently happened. By the way, such slide should not be called an accident because road-engineers know that slides can and will happen, therefore they should be prophylactic... I will go search for a spring-break video and comment about our future so-called professionals.....
They HAD to break it up where it was, their equipment wasn't anywhere near big enough to move it. Equipment that big may not have been possible to to get there for days due to it being oversized.
Well DUH as Tina Anderson says. 64 is just like a deal I got into in Sylva a couple of years ago. The rock originally went straight into the river but along came progress and shot a shelf off of it to make a road. Same in Sylva but there was a notch shot out even further back for a house site. You can stand on the top porch and cast a fish hook across the road and into the river from it. A flood fell and saturated the ground on top of the rock and it scooted right down to the house. The contractor had a small trackhoe trying to keep the slide off the house but the slide took him, hoe and all right into the house. He climbed off the hoe through the back glass and into the house bathroom window on the 2nd story. This is where I came in. One track off the hoe and 2 rocks the size of pickup truck beds hanging over the 2nd story. The rental company came and put the track back on and I undercut those boulders and dug a hole for them to fall in away from the house. I got the hoe out of there and they fell a little while later. Same with 64. Nothing to hold the rock above the shelf/road and a little water to slick it up and down they come. Gravity never fails.
I was going to use this in my classroom, then I read the tick on the bottom. OMG...kids don't need all that. I swear, I did not see all that the first 2473 times I used before. That stuff was not there.
Also, why employ the term "Break-up" in "Break-up the boulder"? If the journalist is going to employ such compounded words, why not apply the term "break-down" in this case?
If you pre drill the rock ,it will break along the drill lines in manageable pieces, a lot faster ! She would be great in the ditch thats what reading is all about *****
A geologist receiving credit, amazing!
aaand 13 years later I just went white water rafting on the Ocoee river and our guide told us about it and now I’m here watching this video
I remember that, it took over a week to clean it up. I live 45 minutes from there, and as far as the rain goes it rains here about all the time.
Yeah it took 5 months for them to open 64 back up. The Detour was hell.
".... it rains here about all the time" ....where did you get that hair-brained-notion?...:>)
I was about a mile away when it happened. My dad and I were enroute from Michigan to Blue Ridge, GA and we were to pass that spot. TDOT was rerouting people just up the road because of the slide earlier that morning. Scary to think we were that close and seriously could have been passing it when it happened.
12 years later this is on my feed. 😂
Didn't need a geologist to tell ya that shelf was going to break loose.
these men apparently did lol she saved there lives.
These guys did, her education paid off.
that's what i call Rock 'n roll
So 12 years later what does the area look like?
I drove that road about 100 times doing some forest technician work. Crazy to think something like that could happen randomly
Yeah, but if you've driven on 64 you know there are signs everywhere that say 'watch for falling rocks' still, you only expect A rock, not the entire side of the mountain.
Holy Moly!!
This is as crazy as the landslides on the highway 1 near Big Sur.
I am all over the roads in tn and nc. this scares me to death. all the rain that we have and lots of snow this year. I think I will just start staying home.
Have you left home and ventured out as yet within the last 11 years?
Thank God for science and our ability to be educated. ;)
My whiter water rafting guide from Ocoee Outdoors, Nick, told us today, that this happened awhile back and to look it up on TH-cam. Crazy!
Is drove on this road only 12 hours before the slide. WOW
In such cases, they must wait for the pertinent personnel; qualified engineers, or geologists, etc. Anyhow, I believe the area was saturated by recent copious rain; waiting for better weather should have been the next step, and perhaps gradual use of dynamite. To wait for a complete slide, such as the one that happened, is also an option (More or less the first option)
Loosed by the tree roots, rain and winter cycle, happens to many mountain sides.
thanks futility closet
@YDontUSmelWhtUShovln I've driven that road many times. The alternative is a 2 hour detour. In the middle of the mountains, you can't just put a road anywhere.
That gravel road that goes past lost creek, right?
Spongiform it’s a two lane paved road through Ocoee River Gorge
Do these amature roadworkers not think aboutsurveying the stability of the slope before going to work right underneath?!!
Gotta love m'cuur
MaxSafeheaD Hey Dipshit, a few things to bear in mind. First, a survey was done. That's why they moved back and no one was hurt. Second, before commenting that someone is immature you should learn how to spell the word. Third, if you meant "amateur" then see number two.
Canada and USA Rock
A survey was done?
Good fucking survey then ...
MaxSafeheaD
It sure was a good survey, nobody was hurt. Good comment.
Canada and USA Rock
"brought in contract crews to break it up with an impact hammer. The operater was working directly under the shelf that collapsed less than an hour later"
(I was being a little sarcastic)
+Canada and USA Rock your username. Why isn't mexico there?
Oh yeah I remember this, was pretty intense!
There was a guy killed on Hwy 70, close to pegram tn. Just out side of nashville.
A rock , about the size of the one in this video, fell on top of his pickup. It stopped and crushed his truck, killing him instantly.
I think it was in the late 70's or early 80's.
The Overhangs on Hwy 70, need to be blasted. I wish TDOT would do something about it. Every year at least 3 or 4 cars are totalled along that stretch of HWY.
--Maybe it's just me. I hope that isn't the case but, when that lady geologist showed up and said that the road must be cleared--do you think those hardcore, crusty old guys took her for her word?? This woman shows up and says that the road isn't safe. She says that another slide is forthcoming. Do you believe her? It doesn't matter. She gave an order. Lady Bateman orders you to move--YOU MOVE!!! Everytime this lady shows up, the only question will be,"What do you want us to do??" : )
This video Rocks!!!
notice that it was a STATE GOVERNMENT PERSON!!!
(govt works when people want it to work!!!)
blind hatred of govt is what gives us bad govt!
A perfect example of the ineptitude that reigns the vast majority of the planet. The so-called competent private contractors should not have attempted destroying the displaced boulder exactly in front where the slide had recently happened. By the way, such slide should not be called an accident because road-engineers know that slides can and will happen, therefore they should be prophylactic...
I will go search for a spring-break video and comment about our future so-called professionals.....
They HAD to break it up where it was, their equipment wasn't anywhere near big enough to move it. Equipment that big may not have been possible to to get there for days due to it being oversized.
Waiting for bigger equipment is better than shaking a mountainside.
World record trundle
Weather channel is saying today , this hwy is still dangerous .
Very much so there are rock slides all the time.
Thanks for sharing Aranda
+Aranda Smith Sure! It's straight up on one side and straight down on the other. Add a lot of rain and gravity takes over.
Especially when the winter thaws and the rocks have cracked from ice.
Well DUH as Tina Anderson says. 64 is just like a deal I got into in Sylva a couple of years ago. The rock originally went straight into the river but along came progress and shot a shelf off of it to make a road. Same in Sylva but there was a notch shot out even further back for a house site. You can stand on the top porch and cast a fish hook across the road and into the river from it. A flood fell and saturated the ground on top of the rock and it scooted right down to the house. The contractor had a small trackhoe trying to keep the slide off the house but the slide took him, hoe and all right into the house. He climbed off the hoe through the back glass and into the house bathroom window on the 2nd story. This is where I came in. One track off the hoe and 2 rocks the size of pickup truck beds hanging over the 2nd story. The rental company came and put the track back on and I undercut those boulders and dug a hole for them to fall in away from the house. I got the hoe out of there and they fell a little while later. Same with 64. Nothing to hold the rock above the shelf/road and a little water to slick it up and down they come. Gravity never fails.
120 miles away and it nearly killed them
I was going to use this in my classroom, then I read the tick on the bottom. OMG...kids don't need all that. I swear, I did not see all that the first 2473 times I used before. That stuff was not there.
Also, why employ the term "Break-up" in "Break-up the boulder"? If the journalist is going to employ such compounded words, why not apply the term "break-down" in this case?
Why are you on an intelligence trip? Are you trying to prove your competence?
I was looking for THEE ROCK
put dynamite in cracks and blast to see it hillside moves before using the road
some people i go to college with had to stay in town to make it to school this morning! haha wow
Avoid that road.
Show
I came here from dchool😃💀
Only on 12.... AND TH-cam
Austin Strause 😂😂😂😂
If you pre drill the rock ,it will break along the drill lines in manageable pieces, a lot faster ! She would be great in the ditch thats what reading is all about *****
I wish the media was standing there
that's how they mine coal by golly
120 miles my ass!!!!!!!
well shit all their hard work for nothing
D:
Lie lie lie
SUBHAN ALLAH
"This is what happens when you mess with nature!"
Al Gore.