Friday, January 19, 2018

Highway 101 in Santa Barbara is still closed from mudslides

[IN THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA AREA]
IS CLOSED TO NORTHBOUND TRAFFIC FROM THE VENTURA/SANTA BARBARA CO LINE TO SOUTH MILPAS ST /IN SANTA BARBARA/ (SANTA BARBARA CO) - DUE TO MUDSLIDES - MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO USE AN ALTERNATE ROUTE
IS CLOSED TO SOUTHBOUND TRAFFIC FROM SOUTH MILPAS ST /IN SANTA BARBARA/ TO 3.4 MI SOUTH OF SANTA BARBARA /AT PADARO LANE/ (SANTA BARBARA CO) - DUE TO MUDSLIDES - MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO USE AN ALTERNATE ROUTE
end quote from:http://www.dot.ca.gov/cgi-bin/roads.cgi?roadnumber=101&submit=Search
 This is the quote from Caltrans for Highway 101

The latest concern is because of broken sewage lines mixed with unknown chemicals from gardening etc. or chemicals stored in containers in garages or other outbuildings that were broken by large rocks and boulders going through buildings scattered across lands all the way to the ocean from the mountains there. So now, they are worried about a typhus or other type of epidemic caused by broken sewage lines or illnesses caused by chemicals concentrated in certain areas. So, they aren't recommending people return to their homes without sewage systems or power or gas or roads where you can drive a car on and no phone lines working. So, unless people have solar chargers there is no power to even charge their phones and in an emergency they would have to be rescued by helicopter because there are no accessible roads past Milpas heading south from Santa Barbara city unless they have been cleared by heavy equipment. And sometimes that is still a problem because watery mud and slush is trapped various places so even clearing roads can create new problems down stream. Also, people are still missing and heavy equipment operators don't want to accidentally dig up bodies of people still missing.

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