Category Archives: Landslides

More slide damage in the Benbow area

SoHum Awareness: Kris Wallan: Road Damage in Southern Humboldt: Slide on Benbow Drive, south Benbow Drive. Slide cleared from road during big storms. Water running onto road still after weeks of less wet weather. Potholes. April 22 at 12:28pm Kris … Continue reading

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Aerial Photos Fish Creek and Dobbyn Creek Slides

SoHum Awareness: Dan Gribi: An aerial photo of the Fish Creek slide from today. Added April 19 Diana Totten: This slide is huge. Although it did not strip the trees off like Dobbyn Creek, the trees are uprooted and leaning. … Continue reading

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Dobbyn’s Creek Lake drops 4 feet

Due to what Diana Totten consultant on the Dobbyn’s Creek slide called “heroic acts” by the equipment operator of GE Construction, the slide has been opened enough that water is pouring through and the recently formed “lake” has dropped four … Continue reading

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Diana Updates Dobbyn Creek Slide

SoHum Awareness: Diana Totten: Dobbyn’s Creek slide update: The slide continues to move slowly. Even with the rain showers the water level is still receding slowly. The channel the creek has created through the debris dam is slowly eroding a … Continue reading

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Dobbyn Creek Slide from the air

Just before 10 pm last night, I received an email from Southern Humboldt’s Supervisor Clif Clendenen sending me photos of the slide. He addressed the concerns of folk here that landslides didn’t receive the same level of attention as fires … Continue reading

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Diana – Dobbyn Creek Update

SoHum Awareness: Diana Totten: Heading back to Dobbyn’s Creek slide this morning. It is still moving slowly. Yesterday the trees and rocks on the south side of the slide were falling. Several agencies are trying to come up with a … Continue reading

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Dobbyn Creek Update

SoHumAwareness: Diana Totten: I have worked pretty hard for the last couple weeks to bring attention to the major damage from the land slides and slip outs in our area. I am humbled by the power of nature and amazed … Continue reading

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