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So we moved back about 20 yards at that time. >> i heard a sound that sounded like a car door slam. a really sharp rapport. i talked to steve, the county maintenance supervisor and said, have you heard this sound before? he said, yeah, we did indeed hear this before. i said, we have to get all this construction equipment stopped. we have to hear what's going on. >> they stopped the jackhammer and moved the construction and news crews even further back. >> vanessa goes on and she takes a look at the mountain and then she walks back and she's talking to some of the tdot personnel. and all of a s...

>> vanessa bateman is in her tdot office when she gets a report of the rock slide. >> at that point, it was clear it was an emergency. they had a rock in the road. the road is closed, everyone gets excited. okay, what is going on. >> it takes bateman about three hours to drive to the site. >> the emergency response folks were there. the county maintenance guys were there and then a construction company had been called to come in to bring in the equipment that would be needed to break up the rocks that were on the road, get them off. there was one larger rock, and there was a news crew. >> we s...

>> there's a tremendous amount of pressure to get the road open. but you have to do it and do it safely. >> steve jones, tdot's county supervisor, knows commuters want him to work fast. >> we got people that get mad at us when we stop for five minutes doing maintenance work. you can imagine what was like stopping for hours. >> according to jones, the area gets two to three rockslides a year and when they happen, a tdot geologist is always called to the scene. >> as it her call to view the situation to see whether we can get it safely done, to get everything stabilized to make sure it's safe fo...

Open. but you have to do it and do it safely, though. >> steve jones, tdot's county supervisor, knows commuters want him to work fast. >> we got people that get mad at us when we stop for five minutes doing maintenance work. you can imagine what it was like for hours. >> according to jones, the area gets two to three rock slides a year, and when they happen, a tdot geologist is always called to the scene. >> it's her call to view the situation, to see whether we can get it safely done, get everything stabilized, make sure it's safe for the traffic to come through. >> vanessa bateman is in her ...

So we moved back about 20 yards at that time. >> i heard a sound that sounded like a car door slam. a really sharp> rapport. i talked to steve, the county mant nantz supervisor and said, have you heard this sound before? he said, yeah, we did indeed hear this before. i said, we have to get all this construction equipment stopped. we have to hear what's going on. >> they stopped the jackhammer and moved the construction and news crews even further back. >> vanessa goes on and she takes a look at the mountain and then she walks back and she's talking to some of the tdot personnel. and all of a s...