By KAREN VELIE
A mudslide during the storm on Saturday led to the closure of Highway 1 at Ragged Point in San Luis Obispo County to 4 miles north of Lucia – a hamlet 38 miles north of Hearst Castle.
There is currently no estimate of when the highway will reopen.
In June 2025, Highway 1 at Rocky Creek fully reopened following a landslide in March 2024.
@caltransd5 on ‘X’ reports “Highway 1 is closed from Ragged Point to four miles north of Lucia..due to mud and rock slide activity. There is no estimate for re-opening.”
The last slide was looking to re-open in March. Oh well. Thank you for the update, Karen.
Update: CalTrans got busy and cleared it all up late Sunday morning.
Ah yes, our yearly, costly, inconvenient, unamusing reminder that climate change and the natural disasters associated with it, while not “catastrophic”, can easily disrupt not only our daily lives but also our livelihoods.
How is climate change responsible, for tectonic movement? Those mountains came about, solely by the Pacific Plate slamming into the Continental Plate. The “climate” had nothing to do with it.
The mountainsides fall down, whether it’s raining or not, hot or not, on fire or not, or if Newsom is at a tax theft planning convention…oh..I mean, a climate summit…in any other country but ours.
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