It’s ironic A minute ago before watching your video I was listening to both Brad Paisley and Patti Loveless You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive Those guard rails and power lines can be replaced and repaired. The important thing is no one was hurt and no property was damaged Have a great day. God bless
I've been through Harlan three times in my lifetime. We stayed down there for a week to ride on black mountain. Absolutely fell in love with that area. We have contemplated in the last 2 years moving down into that area. The flooding and the landslide like this are one of the reasons we haven't made the leap down there.
You just have to pay attention to where you're buying a home, make sure it's not too close to the river and make sure there's not been any strip mining or logging in the mountains behind it.
Wow! Lucky nobody got caught in it or hurt! Looks like they did a speedy and fantastic job getting the road back open and utilities fixed! Thanks for sharing Coyote's!👍
As far as I know, they wasn’t able to detour traffic at all. It actually affected the railroad traffic even. There was a train loading at CloverLick that was delayed as the recrew couldn’t get there to load it, and the crew that was on it had to go around and across black mountain and through Middlesboro to get back to Corbin so they could go home. Wild how much one slide affects everything!
OMG! Look at that! That's incredible! I'm glad no one was hurt or killed. Water is very powerful & needs to be respected for what damage it can do. That's so sad now that people have to deal with that mess the water has made. ☹
MILE POST? NEAREST COMMUNITY? Back in the sixties, the Tremont Slip blocked the road, free two feet of coal. Drive to Cawood and take hwy 987 to Bridge to nowhere,(ELK PRESERVE) on hwy US 119, or Calvin. This was part of the Harlan Road to re-supply the Pinnacle Overlook,(CUMBERLAND GAP). Just south of there at the sign maker home, some of his bank slipped two years ago. They say our mountains were twice as high in the past. You'll see those rocks are worn and smooth. This is their fourth or fifth slide on their way to the bottom. Before that Harlan County was a hugh lake being blocked at the NARROWS at Pineville. All the Gaps was where this bowl of water spilled out. CUMBERLAND GAP gave us CUDJO CAVERNS and Middlesbourgh had a leak causing people to think it was a crater but was a small outlet. Big Black Mountain,(highest point in Kentucky) wasn't eroded but still lost half of its height. Shell Gap,(LADEN TRAIL) drained north into Letcher County. In the thirties the US GOVERNMENT wanted to build a dam at Pineville but that would bury a billion tons of coal, so they went to Tennessee. I forgot about Pennington Gap. Water seeks it's own level, gotta go somewhere.
This was near Blackmont, to its west, and not very far from where Hensley Shoe Store once was. And, BTW, the city of Middlesboro sits in an ancient impact crater. The geology there confirms it. If it once had a lake in the crater, that developed much later; maybe a remnant of the last ice age. Edit: that intersection he passed at the end for KY72 is at Blackmont and goes to the head of the holler at Black Star in Harlan County.
