Heavy rains and winds contributed to two mudslides Monday near the Jefferson-Mason county line.
The larger of the slides in Lilliwaup has closed U.S. Highway 101 about 20 miles south of Brinnon.
A slide in Hoodsport has one lane of the highway blocked.
Crews are expected to continue working on clearing the slides this morning, state Department of Transportation spokesman Lloyd Brown said.
There was no estimate on when the road would be reopened.
Workers are busy across the region dealing with a variety of weather-related problems affecting highways.
The Mason County washouts come on the heels of a mudslide on Highway 101 at Lake Crescent and a massive sinkhole on state Highway 112 that has severed Neah Bay’s road connection to the world.
“We’ve got slides all over the place, quite frankly,” Brown said.
“From the tip of Neah Bay down to the south end of Mason County there is water over roadways, tree limbs, clogged culverts and catch basins, washouts — you name it.
“We have all available resources working right now to keep the state highway system operating.”
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The rest of the story appears in Tuesday’s Peninsula Daily News Jefferson County edition.
