Highway Reopens Following Closure Due to Suspicious Item Investigation
Update by edhat staff
5:40 p.m., May 27, 2022
Highway 101 is now back open.
Update by edhat staff
3:45 p.m., May 27, 2022
All lanes of Highway 101 are still closed near Cat Canyon Road due to an investigation of a suspicious item.
Northbound lanes are being directed off at Los Alamos to Hwy. 135. Southbound lanes are being taken off at Union Valley Pkwy. in Santa Maria and directed to Hwy. 135.
There is no estimated time for reopening, according to Caltrans.
At 2:00 p.m., Caltrans reported all lanes of Highway 101 at Cat Canyon Rd. north of Los Alamos are reopened. It's unclear if the roadway opened and then shut back down again or if the reopening report was made in error.
Update by edhat staff
12:45 p.m., May 27, 2022
Caltrans has updated the closure to include both north and southbound lanes of Highway 101.
Northbound lanes will be diverted at Los Alamos onto Hwy. 135. Southbound lanes will exit at Union Valley Pkwy. in Santa Maria and on to Hwy. 135.
By edhat staff
12:00 p.m., May 27, 2022
Caltrans announced all southbound lanes of Highway 101 at Cat Canyon Road will close at 1:00 p.m. today, as requested by the California Highway Patrol (CHP).
Just before noon, Caltrans posted a "SIG ALERT" announcing CHP is working in the area and requested the roadway to be closed for 30 minutes to one hour.
A detour is available via southbound Highway 135.
According to the CHP, law enforcement is being called out to investigate a suspicious item that was found off the roadway that may or may not be an explosive.
This is a developing story.
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May 29, 2022 06:57 AMJust imagine the criticism if it was something explosive and a response was not mounted!
Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
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May 28, 2022 01:10 PMIt was probably something like a petrified Big Mac, otherwise the authorities would have blabbed all over the place how they saved the world. Time to come clean and let us know what it was.
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May 28, 2022 09:16 AMSo, do we assume it was a boondoggle, a false alarm? Interesting there is no description of what someone reported as suspicious, and then no word that it was nothing. For how many thousands of people who were inconvenienced you'd think they'd release more info.
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May 28, 2022 09:54 AMThat was supposed to say: PSTARSR ... My favorite quote from the noozhawk "Update" was/is "The bomb team from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene to examine the item, Barriga said.". Seems to be the resolve? So a closure for 4 1/2 hours and...? maybe Roger knows?
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May 28, 2022 09:37 AMPit - I'm having trouble discerning if that was sarcasm; humor; or an attempt to be helpful? otherwise pretty impressive lack of or complete useful information? I tried but couldn't match it. Rather long 101 delay w/no followup....
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May 28, 2022 09:22 AMnoozhawk said caltrans said " could or could not be a homemade bomb"
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May 28, 2022 03:40 AMLive reports from SLO news, Friday 6:20 p.m.
"The California Highway Patrol office in Santa Maria is currently closed and emails sent by The Tribune inquiring about the state of the highway closure and investigation have not received a response.
Read more at: https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/article261872140.html#storylink=cpy
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May 28, 2022 12:18 AMwhat a mess
keyt
By Jade Martinez-Pogue, Lily Dallow
today at 3:26 pm
Published May 27, 2022 12:11 pm
North and southbound Highway 101 lanes north of Los Alamos close temporarily Friday due to a possible bomb
KEYT
LOS ALAMOS, Calif. – All southbound and northbound Highway 101 lanes at Cat Canyon Road are closed again for an investigation of a possible bomb, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Caltrans said the lanes were closed first at 1:00 p.m., and then again just before 3:00 p.m. when the Santa Barbara County Sheriffs Office arrived to investigate the scene.
Workers closed down the highway due to a possible home made bomb near Cat Canyon that a Caltrans worker found on Friday morning at 10:07 a.m., according to CHP
CHP officers said they responded to the scene and set up a command post, and notified the County Sheriffs Office.
This second closure is supposed to be lifted at 4:00 p.m., according to CHP.
However, Caltrans said there is no estimated time for reopening.
The first closure at 1:00 p.m. was supposed to last about 30 minutes, according to Jim Shivers, spokesman for CalTrans District 5.
Northbound lanes were diverted to Highway 135 at Los Alamos, and the southbound lanes exited at Union Valley Parkway in Santa Maria and onto Highway 135, Shivers said.
As of 1:49 p.m., all lanes were reopened, before closing again around 3:00 p.m.
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May 28, 2022 12:37 AMDon't jump on me, yes, I'm very glad they did their job and protected us!!
I was just commenting, would be good if htey'd all worked together at the same time. Thank you CHP and sherrifs!
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May 27, 2022 09:54 PMA report with no real information from Noozhawk:
"With Memorial Day Weekend traffic in full swing, authorities shut down Highway 101 near Los Alamos for hours Friday afternoon while they investigated a suspicious object that was discovered near the roadway.
Caltrans issued a Sig Alert for the shutdown of the highway at Cat Canyon Road, which started at 1 p.m. and ended around 5:30 p.m. The closure was initially expected to last an hour or less.
https://www.noozhawk.com/article/discovery_of_suspicious_object_prompts_shutdown_of_highway_101_near_los_ala
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May 27, 2022 07:04 PMScanner andrew retweeted some stuff from caltrans, perhaps this thing dragged on longer than the CHP cad led me to believe...
... but since I’m typing this, this whole incident reminds me to charge up my scanner cuz it’s friday!
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May 27, 2022 03:25 PMWell? What did it turn out to be?
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May 27, 2022 03:02 PMThere is a bunch of weird terrible scary stuff going down yesterday and today!
Incident: 00167
Type: Fatality
Location: Us101 N / Las Varas Canyon Loc Desc: AT Lat/Lon: 34.482611 -119.964695
Detail Information
2:21 PM 2 [4] FIRE INSIDE TK
2:21 PM 1 [2] OFF THE RDWY
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May 27, 2022 02:43 PMYikes! Glad they closed it down and are taking every precaution. With the way this country is going, we can't risk ignoring any threats anymore!
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May 27, 2022 01:53 PMThanks, Gregoreo. Google Maps doesn't show any detours, but my relatives have to be somewhere at a specific time, and I was concerned that they might end up being late.
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May 27, 2022 01:49 PMCAD says road open at 1:27pm
Didn’t have scanner so idk what this was about...
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May 27, 2022 09:58 PMHuh. They found it important or threatening enough not to put it on the public info site.
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May 27, 2022 09:57 PMGot it, I assume you meant CHP for "CAD"
I was shocked that the closure was not listed this afternoon!
Site is https://cad.chp.ca.gov/Traffic.aspx
Select area from drop-down "Communications Centers" in left-hand menu.
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May 27, 2022 09:53 PMWhat is CAD? Curious, always looking for more sources of information. Maybe CA Dept of ...?
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May 27, 2022 01:48 PMDoes anyone know if this is still in effect? I have relatives driving down from NoCal today. Thx.