The Nacimiento-Fergusson Rd. which comes across the mountains to the coast is now open from 6 am to 7pm at night so food and gas and other necessities are getting through by vehicle once again so they don't have to use helicopters to bring in food and necessities for life anymore. However, businesses south of Pfeiffer Bridge which is being demolished presently because of rain damage caused sliding hillsides and undermining one of the main bridge pillars might not fare that well with tourists mostly cut off from places south of the Bridge on Hiway 1 now for 8 months to a year or longer until a new bridge is built.
On top of this more rain today and tomorrow and Friday and Saturday might cause more problems considering how wet and moving soils are in the whole area right now as well. So, whatever roads now open might also theoretically close once again by Sunday.
By using Wrecking balls and giant pneumatic hammers on Cranes they have already brought down one section of the bridge but other sections still have to be removed and then cranes have to lift fallen pieces of concrete and re-bar up and put them on trucks to be hauled away before new construction can begin in earnest which means likely a month or so of work demolishing the bridge and hauling away debris before engineers can test the soils enough to engineer something that won't do the same thing within a couple of years once again in another large storm year of atmospheric river flooding.
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