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    It's gonna be a while before those people get their cars back.

    SR 504 - Spirit Lake Outlet Bridge - Washout by Washington State Dept of Transportation, on Flickr
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    Quote Originally Posted by The AD View Post
    It's gonna be a while before those people get their cars back.

    SR 504 - Spirit Lake Outlet Bridge - Washout by Washington State Dept of Transportation, on Flickr
    I've heard the road will be closed all season, so it will be close to a year to get the cars. Might as well consider them totaled for insurance now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phatty View Post
    I've heard the road will be closed all season, so it will be close to a year to get the cars. Might as well consider them totaled for insurance now.
    Closed to traffic doesn't mean that they won't be able to get them before repairs are complete though,

    If for no other reason that the repair crews will want them out of the way.
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    I doubt any cars are in the way. The people were all evacuated from Johnston Ridge which is several miles away from the washout. I think the cars you see in the photo I posted probably belong to the crew there to evaluate the highway damage.

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    The cars in the photo are on the way up the road, below the wash out, so they can drive down. It's the right side of the photo that is the way up to the trapped vehicles.

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    Yes, the cars are at the observatory lot. I saw one person on Instagram who is assuming they won't get it back until after the snow. That said, they will likely be able to get a temporary bridge in place sometime this summer and hopefully get them out before the snows come.

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    Heli them out w/ the Guard?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Norseman View Post
    Heli them out w/ the Guard?
    Yeah, this seems like a good training exercise for the Guard/JBLM, whether its heavy lift Chinooks or quick little training project for the Army Corps. If a road washout is all it takes to stop our troops dead in their tracks we are in trouble. I can think of numerous mcguivered ways to get ten cars over/across/around that washout in a temporary, sketchy manner.

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    I guess the question is how important is it to transport a handful of personal vehicles out of there? The Chinook operation would probably be more expensive than the value of the vehicles being recovered.

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    Yep. Here's your rental car, sir.

    Anyone been skiing? It's too hot. Lows at Paradise have been like 50F for a week, ugh.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Norseman View Post
    Yep. Here's your rental car, sir.
    Either that or "sorry, act of God!"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Norseman View Post
    Yep. Here's your rental car, sir.

    Anyone been skiing? It's too hot. Lows at Paradise have been like 50F for a week, ugh.
    It hasn’t been freezing at the pass even though I can’t confirm that, since the telemetry is down. I’ll prolly go tomorrow because I like tromping around in the woods, but I’m not expecting much.
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    I tried to stomp around in the woods last Thursday on Blewett--I cruised by wedge mountain, no go, east of the summit also looked like a fools errand, so I ended up on snoqualmie pass at west which was actually fun and not as mushy as I thought it would be. Coverage to the parking lot too.

    I ended up in the Teanaway over the weekend and it was quite warm and soft. There was still plenty of snow at higher elevations, but it is disappearing quickly--looks pretty normal for this time of year out there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Norseman View Post
    Heli them out w/ the Guard?
    Do the cars have solid sling load points on them?

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    Private Pile seems to have “hard landed”your Tesla ma’am……our apologies. Who should we make the check out to?

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    Quote Originally Posted by AK47bp View Post
    Private Pile seems to have “hard landed”your Tesla ma’am……our apologies. Who should we make the check out to?
    Slap a couple Ibeams down, aquaseal some railroad ties to the top and drive those cars across. We dont need a good solution here, we jsut need something that will barely work for 90 seconds. FFS, didnt the topgear guys basically do this same thing with branches and SUVs in one of their amazon specials?!

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    Quote Originally Posted by californiagrown View Post
    Slap a couple Ibeams down, aquaseal some railroad ties to the top and drive those cars across. We dont need a good solution here, we jsut need something that will barely work for 90 seconds. FFS, didnt the topgear guys basically do this same thing with branches and SUVs in one of their amazon specials?!
    Yeah, but we're not talking about Top Gear here. We're talking about the government...

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    Nobody cares about the fucking cars man.

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    Quote Originally Posted by XavierD View Post
    Do the cars have solid sling load points on them?
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    ??

    or just drive em onto the big cargo net and say "sorry about yer bumpers and mirrors"... ? I dunno man

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    Quote Originally Posted by Norseman View Post
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    or just drive em onto the big cargo net and say "sorry about yer bumpers and mirrors"... ? I dunno man
    10k net would most likely crush the cars. This could maybe work, but might also drop a car on the first turn. Im not against the idea, but owner risk + risk to environment if you drop one + recent army aviation history is likely going to kill it.

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    Doesn't the military have inflatable or some sort of makeshift portable bridge that they can use?
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