In Oregon, the transportation department goes for dynamite. They tried blowing up a whale that washed ashore, once, but that didn't work out quite as intended, as "the blast blew blubber beyond all believable bounds". But it the case of the boulder in question, blocking both lanes of highway 138 east of Roseburg, dynamite it was.
Oregon Department of Transportation crews responded to the 12-foot rock on the highway east of Glide early Thursday morning. The rock and several other large, 50- to 100-ton pieces blocked the roadway for several hours until Roseburg contractor Weekly Bros. Inc. and blasting service Austin Powder reduced the massive rock to rubble.
Obviously, paving crews will need to be doing some work down there today.
