On Sun, 12 Feb 2017 14:02:19 -0800, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

Highway 17 landslide turns car over, blocks both lanes, and cleanup crew
killed. http://i.cubeupload.com/VD5wTr.jpg

Not exactly. Only one Granite Construction worker was killed by a
dump truck, not the overturned car:
http://www.ksbw.com/article/highway-17-mudslide-worker-hit-by-vehicle/8698622

I know. I didn't say that more than one person was killed, as it was a
father (and son) team working that day for Granite Construction where the
father died (Tuesday, I think) from an accident.

The overturned car was apparently pushed to the other lanes and flipped
over by the onrushing landslide. At least that's how I understood the news
to state. The guy was unhurt who was driving the overturned car.

Is that your understanding also?

Hole in Skyline along the crest of the mountain ridge above the San Andreas
Fault opened up this week.
http://i.cubeupload.com/Q9zsF5.jpg

Probably not the fault of the fault. More likely an underground
spring or river under the road, which undermined the pavement.

Yes. I didn't say it was the fault. I was just lining it up where it is for
the people who don't live here. The fault itself is closer to about 600
feet level while Skyline is something like 3000 foot level, so it's a
couple of miles as the crow flies from the actual fault itself.

Still, every road in the vicinity is cloesed, as you well know, from either
landslides or mudslides, as are every major trail in the canyons on the San
Jose side of the summit.

Why people in vans even think to attempt a crossing is beyond me.
http://i.cubeupload.com/HPg6Xo.jpg

Here's the story on the van:
http://www.ksbw.com/article/van-crashes-into-giant-gap-in-santa-cruz-mountains/8693694

Thanks for that underlying story on the blue van.
The photo, I know, is real; but it looks photoshopped.
It was emailed to me by a friend, so I trusted it.
Despite traveling as much as anyone, I've never had an accident in these
mountains. I just don't understand how anyone can fall into that hole,
unless they were parked over it when it happened.

Looking at your reference
http://www.ksbw.com/article/van-cras...ntains/8693694

It seems their picture is even more spectacular:
http://hips.htvapps.com/htv-prod-med...1486589973.jpg

His power was out, so he got candles at the store. He should just have had
a generator, like the rest of us have. The power went out about five or six
times this winter alone, once for 4 or 4 days already.

He was driving too fast for the conditions. He thought the hole was mud. It
was dark. It may have been raining. He had been on that road just an hour
before (and there wasn't a hole at that time).

The guy moved here from NY city just this week, and Monday was his first
day on the job. He's gonna learn that California weather, like the
residents, is wacky!

But, you can't believe anything on California news because everything tends
to the super monstrous liberal, so they distort facts accordingly (e.g., on
the so-called drought).

More Santa Cruz flood and mud photos:
https://www.google.com/search?q=santa+cruz+rain+photos&tbm=isch&tbs=qdr:w

This one of those is Highway 17 where the SUV flipped by the mudslide
(supposedly) and the worker died cleaning it up:
http://www.mercurynews.com/wp-conten.../img_39461.jpg

The mudslide wiped out both lanes of the northbound side, it seems:
http://www.mercurynews.com/wp-conten...uel-tha_21.jpg

This is apparently the remains of his SUV, flipped right-side up:
http://www.mercurynews.com/wp-conten.../img_39511.jpg

I'm trying to figure out where this one is?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4V7UT1UcAASgMk.jpg

Is that Skyline?
If so, it looks like it's a good place to put up a bridge.

View of the San Lorenzo river just outside my office:
http://www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/sjm-storm-0208-403.jpg?w=620

Isn't that the same river that washed out Highway 9 last week?

Except for the usual roof leaks, my house and office downtown are
doing fine. My local (San Lorenzo Valley) weather page:
http://802.11junk.com/jeffl/wx/SLV-WX-links.html
Might be something of interest in there as most links can be adapter
to other areas.

I'm not sure what the plastic is supposed to do:
http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/content/k...5_1280x720.jpg

We have been getting horizontal rain over on the Loma side of things.