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'We had a plan and then things kept moving': battered yet enduring, Highway 1 remains closed

California Highway 1 hugs the coastline near Limekiln State Park on Sunday, May 2, 2021, in Big Sur, California.

When a series of atmospheric rivers flowed into California last January, the Big Sur coastline was quickly swamped, and Highway 1, a lone life raft connecting San Simeon in the south and the Monterey Peninsula to the north, was overcome.

Long vulnerable to the whims of nature, the iconic serpentine is especially vulnerable to and the nearly forgotten outpost, Lucia, and just north of and the Ragged Point headlands.

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