Rockslide in NC near Tennessee shuts Interstate 40 - Truckers' Trucking Forum

GAPrincess · **^ Top** #1 10.25.2009

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(AP) – 5 hours ago
RALEIGH, N.C. — A rockslide in western North Carolina near the Tennessee state line has closed Interstate 40, and officials say it could take several months to clear the debris. The state Department of Transportation on Sunday issued an emergency declaration. Initial estimates from engineers are that it could take several months to clean up the entire slide and restore traffic.

DOT said a contractor is en route to begin clean up. The rockslide occurred shortly after 2 a.m. near mile marker 3 in Haywood County. A detour has been set up. Motorists traveling west to Tennessee should take I-40 West to I-240 West in Asheville to I-26 West. Follow I-26 West from Asheville to I-81 South in Tennessee, back to I-40. Eastbound motorists will follow the reverse directions.

truckerdave1970 · **^ Top** #2 10.25.2009

for trip planning/pay purposes, does anyone know how many more miles this detour adds to a run that is routed that way or how much longer, time-wise, that detour will take as opposed to running straigh thru?

Roadmedic · **^ Top** #3 10.25.2009

Just taking a quick look, not running on the map program I have, it looks like about 60 miles or about an hour and a half.

ky wildcat 4ever · **^ Top** #4 10.25.2009

it is 62 miles longer running up to johnson city and back down and about 2 hrs longer to run it

Biscuit75 · **^ Top** #5 10.25.2009

Here we go again.

At least you can do that route this time. When there was a rock slide there back in 1997 at MM 1 , I-26 wasn't finished. That had I-40 closed for 3 months while they cleared it, and even after that they had only one lane in each direction for another 9 months before they had the mountainside solidified and reopened the whole road.

Here's a link to a couple videos of raw footage at the scene today. Looks like ole JCT took to driving right over the rocks.

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truckerdave1970 · **^ Top** #6 10.25.2009

Man, you guys are awesome!!! in less than 15 mins, question answered!
I sure wish I had a real computer and could see that video, Biscuit! Sucks to be using my phone on the Net sometimes!

danc694u · **^ Top** #7 10.25.2009

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Originally Posted by Biscuit75

Here we go again.

At least you can do that route this time. When there was a rock slide there back in 1997 at MM 1 , I-26 wasn't finished. That had I-40 closed for 3 months while they cleared it, and even after that they had only one lane in each direction for another 9 months before they had the mountainside solidified and reopened the whole road.

Here's a link to a couple videos of raw footage at the scene today. Looks like ole JCT took to driving right over the rocks.

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I was about to say the same thing...here we go again.

And this is actually the second time (that I'm aware of) it has been closed down since '97.

Thanks GA for the thread.

IROCUBabe · **^ Top** #8 10.25.2009

We missed this little event, in fact the race trucks in the video passed us. We were by that area earlier this morning lol. Lucky for us, not so for Jeff Gordon's care there eh.

stranger · **^ Top** #9 10.25.2009

Here is a link to still photos.

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Biscuit75 · **^ Top** #10 10.25.2009

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Originally Posted by IROCUBabe

We missed this little event, in fact the race trucks in the video passed us. We were by that area earlier this morning lol. Lucky for us, not so for Jeff Gordon's care there eh.

Those race trucks were the Nationwide Series haulers coming back from Memphis last night. The Cup cars are up in Martinsville, so they are lucky enough to just come down I-77 to get home.

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Originally Posted by danc694u

And this is actually the second time (that I'm aware of) it has been closed down since '97.

I did a little digging and can't find any other incidents of 40 being completely shut down from a rock slide since '97. And I don't remember any, just haven't found any info...yet. But today's slide is actually 1.5 miles east of '97s slide. That whole mountain is seemingly unstable.

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