Updated at 8:58 a.m., Saturday, April 7, 2007
North Shore damage to be reviewed at sunrise
Advertiser Staff
State Department of Transportation officials will assess the damage to Kamehamea Highway beginning at sunrise, according to the city's Department of Emergency Management.Half a dozen volunteers were on either side of the rockslide this morning telling drivers that Kamehameha is closed. City bus routes around the area also have been rerouted until further notice, said John Cummings, spokesman for the Department of Emergency Management, formerly the city's Civil Defense agency.
State Department of Transportation officials were unavailable for comment early this morning.
The rockslide fell in the same area as the 2000 rockslide that shut down the North Shore for 95 days, Cummings said.
"It's right where that rockfall protection fencing was put in," Cummings said. "There was a lot of debris and pieces came through the bottom of the fencing."
Volunteers told Cummings that some of the pieces were size of Volkswagens.
The North Shore has had dry weather following heavy rains, which "tends to loosen everything up," Cummings said.
No one was injured but a driver tried to traverse the debris after the slide and the vehicle remained stuck this morning, Cummings said.
