A landslide dumped 12 million pounds of earth onto I-5 near Bellingham a week ago, closing the freeway and rerouting freight traffic bound for Canada.
BELLINGHAM, Wash. — State transportation workers are dangling from ropes on a hillside high above Interstate 5 near Bellingham as crews work to stabilize the slope that collapsed one week ago. No timeline has been announced for reopening the freeway.
The closure is now in its seventh day, disrupting daily commuters and snarling international freight shipments between the United States and Canada.
About 12 million pounds of earth, including boulders the size of buses, came down along a 200-foot swath
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