There was big news yesterday, in our little corner of LA County.
This is a road that is just north of Lombardi Ranch, in Saugus. Here is a Google Map photo of the road from back in 2011.
We use Vasquez Canyon Road as a cut across, to get us over to Canyon Country faster than driving down from my house and across the busy section of our valley and then up again.
It is a 2 lane road and as a matter of fact, I used it to teach my son how to drive on a 2 lane mountain road.
We always started our lesson this way.
We don't use it all the time, but it definitely comes in handy.
Here is what it looked like yesterday.
The road has buckled and so they had to close it down.
They have no idea why it did that, but out of an abundance of caution, they are going to choose to keep us safe.
I know earthquake faults are around our area, but I am not totally sure about this spot.
The one thing I did notice it that the mountain on the left has changed. Look at how it was in 2011 and how it is now. It looks like they may have worked on the grading of the hill.
Also note that the 2 power poles are at an angle now.
If they ever figure out what is going on with the road, I will update, as appropriate.
Here is the update. The mountain is sliding under the roadway. Thus, there is more damage as of this morning.
They have geologists on site, trying to figure out why the mountain is doing this.
Pretty scary.
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