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Cloudy and damp with rain early...then becoming partly cloudy. Low 36F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 90%..
Cloudy and damp with rain early...then becoming partly cloudy. Low 36F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 90%.
Yosemite Falls seen without people due to the park closure on April 11, 2020.
Yosemite Falls seen without people due to the park closure on April 11, 2020.
A man and his wife from the Bay Area visiting Yosemite National Park earlier this week were killed Tuesday morning when a rain-soaked cliff unleashed more than 180 tons of rock that fell 1,000 feet to El Portal Road, striking their Dodge Ram rental truck, pushing it off the road and landing it on a bank of the Merced River, Mariposa County Sheriff-Coroner and National Park Service authorities said Friday.
The victims were identified as Georgios Theocharous, 51, and Ming Yan, 35, a married couple from San Jose.
The sudden rockfall occurred during a week of atmospheric river storms that have saturated the Central Sierra with rains, at about 9 a.m. Tuesday, about a half-mile east of the Arch Rock Entrance Station on El Portal Road in Yosemite National Park.
Park Service staff said the rockfall contained about 185 tons of rock and it impacted 500 feet of the road. Park geologists were investigating the cause of the rockfall. That much rock could fill more than 10 large dump trucks.
El Portal Road was closed Tuesday so park crews could clear the rockfall and make temporary repairs. It was reopened to the public Wednesday afternoon.
Spool Wire Contact Guy McCarthy at gmccarthy@uniondemocrat.net or (209) 770-0405. Follow him on Twitter at @GuyMcCarthy.