Stevens Pass closed again after reopening from snow slide closure

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U.S. 2 at Stevens Pass has closed again, this time due to low hanging power lines, the Washington State Department of Transportation reported on Friday afternoon.

The pass is closed eastbound at milepost 55 and westbound at the summit, milepost 64.5.

Crews said heavy ice-coated power lines are reported to be hanging less than 12 feet from the road.

Puget Sound Energy was called to fix the problem.

No estimated time was given on when the road would be reopened.

Link to tweet

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/stevens-pass-closed-again-after-reopening-from-snow-slide-closure/ar-BB1e25PC?ocid=hplocalnews

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1. Forgive me if I mentioned this before

just finished this excellent book on a Stevens Pass disaster...reads like a novel.
Knowing the area, I found it engrossing. Also had not known a lot of Everett history during the early years before the 20's.

The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche

In February 1910, a monstrous, record-breaking blizzard hit the Northwest. Nowhere was the danger more terrifying than near a tiny town called Wellington, perched high in the Cascade Mountains, where a desperate situation evolved: two trainloads of cold, hungry passengers and their crews found themselves marooned. For days, an army of the Great Northern Railroad's most dedicated men worked to rescue the trains, but just when escape seemed possible, the unthinkable occurred―a colossal avalanche tumbled down, sweeping the trains over the steep slope and down the mountainside.