Don’t drive to Redding right now, if you were going to do that!

Caltrans lets us know Highway 299 between here and there is going to be closed for the “next two to three hours” due to a rock slide. The ol’ Quickmap tells us that this slide slid just west of Junction City — which is itself just west of Weaverville — at about 7:30 this morning, and is going to remain closed for a good long while.

Here’s rough CHP logs in reverse chronological order:

• Jan 4 2016 8:16AM [13] 90-S2 PER S2 , WHEN 16 IS CLR HAVE HIM RESP and WILL SHUT DOWN THE RDWY AT JUNTION CITY CAMPGROUND
• Jan 4 2016 8:07AM [12] 90-S2 PER APPROX 2-3 HRS FOR CLOSURE / ADVS ENTAC
• Jan 4 2016 7:55AM [10] PER CT - SUPV IS 97 , 299 IS CLOSED TIL FURTHER NOTICE - NO VEHS CAN PASS 
• Jan 4 2016 7:32AM [2] VEHS UNABLE TO PASS BY 
• Jan 4 2016 7:32AM [1] ROCK SLIDE - BLKING BOTH TRFF LNS