Posted By Kimberly Wear@kimberly_wear on Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 12:03 PM click to enlarge Clean-up work on the slide. Caltrans reports the slide at Last Chance Grade that came down Tuesday amid record rains has been mostly cleared and the roadway should be open to normal two-way traffic by this afternoon. According to the Eureka National Weather Service, Crescent City — located just north of the unstable 3-mile-long stretch of U.S. Highway 101 in Del Norte County — saw 3.82 inches of rain yesterday, breaking the area’s previous record of 3 inches set exactly 62 years earlier on Jan. 12, 1959. Named after a landslide which struck when a wagon road was first cut across the soaring cliffside in 1894, Last Chance Grade has been slipping into the Pacific Ocean for decades.