Big Sur´s `Arleen´s Slide´ honors woman who protects drivers from falling rock
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BIG SUR — It was a just a hairline crack in the asphalt, but it caught flagger Arleen Guzzie’s notice as she parked her white Chevy truck this spring to control busy Highway 1 traffic along her beloved Big Sur coast. Each day, the crack widened. And grew longer. She watched as a pretty orange nasturtium flower slowly crept, oddly, down the ridge. Guzzie told her supervisors: The land is sinking.Related Articles Wet winter ups the ante for hikers on Pacific Crest Trail Bay Area weather: After heat wave, cooler temperatures reported Friday It’s so hot in England, schoolboys are wearing skirts Scramble to help San Jose homeless in heat wave Heat wave: by the numbers Now that...