Why Highway 1 is the climate challenge that California can’t fix | It is beloved by Big Sur road trippers and is vital for local businesses. But intense storms, slides and fires imperil this highway. (wapo.st)

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[-] BaldProphet@kbin.social 1 points 1 week ago

It's not just Highway 1, too. There are many towns on the coast with roads that are right over the eroding coastal cliffs. Time to not live along those roads anymore.

[-] silence7 1 points 1 week ago

There are a number of places you can see roads and foundations which have halfway-fallen as the land under them eroded away.

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