FLOODING SWAMPS HIGHWAY 14: DAMAGE FROM DELUGE CLOSES ROAD; HOMES, SCHOOL SOAKED.Byline: Bhavna Mistry / Daily News Staff Writer Highway 14 through Red Rock Canyon There are more than 30 parks and canyons in the U.S. named Red Rock Canyon: Parks
Authorities rescued dozens of motorists and residents Wednesday evening after a 12-foot high wall of water swept through the barren canyon and surrounding flatlands
Flatlands is a type of terrain similar to savanna and grassland. , flooding homes and a school, sweeping cars off the pavement, and wrecking the park ranger A park ranger is a person charged with protecting and preserving protected parklands, forests (then called a forest ranger), wilderness areas, as well as other natural resources and protected cultural resources. station and campground. ``It was rushing knee-deep, like a whitewater,'' said 43-year-old Woody Woods, whose Cantil trailer home survived because it rests on blocks out of reach of the water. ``It came up so fast we didn't have any time to do anything,'' said Bill Pappas, 72, whose property was covered with silt. He and his wife shoved towels against the bottom of doors to keep out the water. Authorities said the destruction was the result of an estimated 4 inches of rain and hail that fell shortly after 6 p.m. Wednesday from a violent thunderstorm thunderstorm, violent, local atmospheric disturbance accompanied by lightning, thunder, and heavy rain, often by strong gusts of wind, and sometimes by hail. , which also spread mud through downtown Mojave 20 miles south, and blocked traffic temporarily on Highway 58. The rescued motorists included an 18-year-old Ridgecrest woman who was cut and bruised when her car was swept off the highway. She was pulled to safety by state Department of Transportation workers. Caltrans engineers were dispatched Thursday morning to evaluate the highway damage, which included three bridges Coordinates: Three Bridges is a neighbourhood within the town of Crawley, in the county of West Sussex in England. History weakened by the rushing water. Officials offered no estimate on how much repairs would cost, and speculation on the time it would take to reopen the road ranged from a week to more than a month. Traffic was detoured approximately 90 miles - east on Highway 58 from Mojave to Highway 395, then north through Ridgecrest on 395 until it joins Highway 14, 25 miles north of the washout washout to disperse or empty by flooding with water or other solvent. medullary solute washout a syndrome in which the relative hyperosmolarity of the renal medulla is reduced due to an excessive loss of sodium and chloride from . The damaged section of highway is in the southern section of the state park, where the four-lane roadway borders a desert wash within sight of the red cliffs Red Cliffs may refer to the following:
``The northbound lane just doesn't exist,'' Kern County sheriff's Sgt. Mike Bradley For other persons of the same name, see Michael Bradley. Mike Bradley (football) (born September 16, 1978 in Richmond Hill, Ontario) is a Canadian Football League running back for the Edmonton Eskimos. He is a graduate from the University of Waterloo, where he started in 1997. said, describing the 60-foot-long chunk section missing from Highway 14 inside the state park boundaries. ``It was completely washed away.'' At the park, state rangers were due out this morning to post ``closed'' signs. The park is expected to be closed until Sept. 18. The flash flood toppled an office trailer and a mobile home occupied by a park ranger and his family, knocked out the water system and the diesel generator A diesel generator is the combination of a diesel engine with an electrical generator (often called an alternator) to generate electric energy. Diesel generators are used in places without connection to the power grid or as emergency power-supply if the grid fails. that supplies the visitor center electricity, and flooded the visitor center. The flood left 8 to 24 inches of mud around the tiny Red Rock Elementary School elementary school: see school. in Cantil, and some mud seeped into classrooms. The school was closed Thursday, and today the 19 pupils were to be bused to Robert P. Ulrich Elementary School in California City. Classroom cleanup was expected to take three or four days, school officials said. CAPTION(S): 3 Photos, Map PHOTO (1--color--ran in AV edition only) A California Highway Patrol officer advises a motorist of Highway 14's closure. (2--color--ran in AV edition only) A car comes to a rest after being washed off Highway 14 in Red Rock Canyon State Park by a flash flood Wednesday. (3--color in AV edition only) The flooding, which hit several motorists Wednesday, tore a chunk off Highway 14. Jeff Goldwater/Daily News MAP: Washout at Red Rock Cyn. and Hwy. 14 |
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