Rockfall Closes Main Road To Yosemite - 01/23/12 07:53 PM
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"The slide occurred at 11:30 p.m. Sunday on Big Oak Flat Road, also known as Highway 120, after two days of heavy rain and snow, said park spokesman Scott Gediman. An enormous boulder broke loose and crashed down over the roadway about 1,000 feet north of the valley floor, taking out some of the pavement as it bounced past, Gediman said."
"The slide occurred at 11:30 p.m. Sunday on Big Oak Flat Road, also known as Highway 120, after two days of heavy rain and snow, said park spokesman Scott Gediman. An enormous boulder broke loose and crashed down over the roadway about 1,000 feet north of the valley floor, taking out some of the pavement as it bounced past, Gediman said."