{"id":25947,"date":"2024-08-25T23:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T23:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/sunday-showers-cause-mudslide-on-u-s-highway-550\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T05:30:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:30:45","slug":"sunday-showers-cause-mudslide-on-u-s-highway-550","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/sunday-showers-cause-mudslide-on-u-s-highway-550\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday showers cause mudslide on U.S. Highway 550"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=a21fc163-8a0e-5b7b-880a-fac4352e0b6f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2667\" alt=\"The National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning for La Plata County at around 3 p.m. Sunday. (Reuben Schafir\/Durango Herald)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning for La Plata County at around 3 p.m. Sunday. (Reuben Schafir\/Durango Herald)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A Sunday rainstorm caused a mudslide on U.S. Highway 550 near mile marker 33 just north of the Hermosa Speedway gas station.<\/p>\n<p>The area received around 0.25 inches of rain on Sunday as of 5 p.m. according to the National Weather Service\u2019s Advanced Hydrological prediction service. The Colorado Department of Transportation responded to reports of the mudslide at around 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>CDOT officials called it a minor mudslide that vehicles could drive through, CDOT spokeswoman Lisa Schwantes said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we get mud that has traveled across the roadway and the surface, that makes for some pretty slick conditions,\u201d Schwantes said.<\/p>\n<p>A plow was out removing rock debris from the highway at around 5 p.m. Sunday, and CDOT workers directed traffic through the slide. Traffic was slowed for a period in order for workers to get a plow through to remove rock and mud debris.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning at around 3 p.m. for La Plata County and Eastern Montezuma County.<\/p>\n<p>As of 5:30 p.m., CDOT crews were able to clear the mudslide off the highway.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-4d3c8ede6c7b6eba98ab50e4a2da3907\"><a href=\"mailto:tbrown@durangoherald.com\">tbrown@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado Department of Transportation deemed it a minor slide<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[950,28,1623,414],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-25947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-durango","tag-headlines","tag-rain","tag-weather"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79165,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25947\/revisions\/79165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25947"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=25947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}