Many Canadians may be reconsidering plans to travel to the U.S., but for those still driving south into Washington state, they may need to reconsider their route home.<\/p>\n
All lanes of the I-5 northbound are blocked just south of Bellingham, the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) said in a news release.<\/p>\n
This is due to two separate landslides, one near mile 248 and a second close to milepost 249.<\/p>\n
The highway has been completely closed northbound between North Lake Samish Road and State Route 11\/Old Fairhaven Parkway since the slides took place Thursday night.<\/p>\n
WSDOT says thousands of cubic yards of boulders, trees, and debris flowed down a slope onto the highway.<\/p>\n
Work to clear the road and stabilize the slope has begun, it says, but there is no estimate when the section of highway will reopen.<\/p>\n
The I-5 remains open southbound. Northbound traffic is being diverted off at North Lake Samish\/Exit 246.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many Canadians may be reconsidering plans to travel to the U.S., but for those still driving south into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-553070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}