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Crews clear trees, mud and debris from site of Hwy 1 washout in Big Sur Crews are working seven days a week during the daylight hours where a section of Highway 1 in Big Sur was washed away. Part of the road at Rat Creek, 30 miles north of the San Luis Obispo County line, collapsed during January's big storm. Hundreds of trees are being cleared, along with debris that washed down the creek from the Dolan Fire burn scar. By: Alexa Bertola and last updated 2021-02-12 13:21:41-05 (KSBY) — Crews are working seven days a week during the daylight hours where a section of Highwa...

Highway 1 through Big Sur will be repaired. How long that takes is unclear FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 Caltrans and construction crews work on the collapsed Highway 1 near Rat Creek in Big Sur on Thursday.LiPo Ching / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of5 Local residents Mark Readdie and daughter Fiona walk along Highway 1 and look at a Mill Creek debris flow on Thursday.Kodiak Greenwood / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 3of5 The washed-out segment of Highway 1 near Rat Creek is seen Thursday.Kodiak Greenwood / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 4of5 A bathtub sits ...

As road crews continue to clear debris and make repairs to Highway 1 through the Big Sur area, Caltrans is opening up more of the roadway to motorists.

  The Big Sur community finds itself in yet another hardship now that a southern coast section of Highway 1 is closed. This hardship comes after a major wildfire last summer, the storm and debris flows last week and the ongoing pandemic.  Kirk Gafill sits in his office at Nepenthe in Big Sur. He’s general manager of the restaurant, which is perched on a cliffside with spectacular views of the churning blue waters of the Pacific Ocean.    “It has a dining room that was designed by an architect who was a student of Frank Lloyd Wright, so very expensive windows,” Gafill said. “Very r...

4:28 With last week’s winter storm behind us, damage assessments are underway. KAZU News spoke with some of the people who predicted what could happen with a rain storm of this kind to see if their fears came to fruition.  After the Dolan Fire scorched almost 125,000 acres in the Big Sur area, a team was called in to see how the landscape would react under heavy rainfall. The team studied hydrology, geology, soils and much more and came up with predictions.  “So indeed, what we thought could happen, did happen,” said Kevin Cooper, a retired U.S. Forest Service Biologist. He led the te...