Within the space of three days, a road in California has turned from a fairly standard dusty highway to looking like something out of a Mario Kart video game.
The Vasquez Canyon Road in Santa Clarita was forced to close after it buckled into a wavy and warped mess over the three days following November 19th. The road is still closed and authorities have warned that the area is unsafe.
CBS Los Angeles reported that the road buckled over a 60-meter (200-foot) stretch, some parts rising as high as 4.5 meters (15 feet).
“Cracks are active and continue to expand,” Steven Frasher of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works told CBS Los Angeles. “Hour by hour, the adjacent hillside continues to slip undermining the pavement, actually coming underneath the pavement and uplifting it.”