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A landslide December 23 displaced hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of debris.
The highway surface itself shattered like peanut brittle, the state transportation agency said.
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Guess if you work on the far side of either end of the slide, you are screwed.
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COOS COUNTY LINE — A spokesman for the Oregon Department of Transportation on Tuesday conceded that a road-straightening project may have contributed to the Dec. 23 landslide that shattered Oregon Highway 42 at the Coos-Douglas county line.
http://theworldlink.com/news/local/odot-...a56d9.html