{"id":58202,"date":"2025-11-18T08:30:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T08:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/58202\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T08:30:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T08:30:21","slug":"mudslides-close-highway-58-revive-memories-of-2015-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/58202\/","title":{"rendered":"Mudslides close Highway 58, revive memories of 2015 shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Heavy rain on Saturday led to mudslides that temporarily closed parts of Highway 58, evoking memories of a more severe shutdown a decade ago. Conditions have since improved, and the highway was clear by Monday.<\/p>\n

California Highway Patrol (CHP) Mojave Officer Aaron Maurer reported that it took about two hours to clear the highway on Saturday.<\/p>\n

“Since I\u2019ve been at CHP Mojave, there have not been too many weather-related incidents that have closed the freeway, mudslide-related, for a significant amount of time,” Maurer said. He urged drivers to slow down in poor weather conditions.<\/p>\n

The situation was much different in 2015 when a severe mudslide shut down Highway 58 for several days.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, a crash on the highway near Keene resulted in the death of a semi-truck driver<\/a>. CHP reported 25 collisions in Bakersfield, two in Fort Tejon, and two in Buttonwillow.<\/p>\n

Some drivers, like Damien Hernandez, view the highway as unsafe in wet weather.<\/p>\n

“Not at all. I\u2019ve spun out a few times. I\u2019ve fish-tailed a few times. The mud, the water, when it gets cold. It\u2019s not safe at all,” Hernandez said.<\/p>\n

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Others, like Jacob, have not encountered problems but acknowledge the challenging terrain. “I\u2019ve never encountered any problems with it. But I mean, the terrain is the terrain. You go through valleys and hills, so obviously it\u2019s not the safest route,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Heavy rain on Saturday led to mudslides that temporarily closed parts of Highway 58, evoking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-58202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}