US 99 in Lake Shasta in 2008

[sdmichael]

I am going through some of my old photos and I recently posted a few from an October 2008 trip up to Lake Shasta to see the emerging sections of old US 99.

http://cxmichael.blogspot.com/2013/03/us-99-in-lake-shasta-october-2008.html

[kkt]

I am going through some of my old photos and I recently posted a few from an October 2008 trip up to Lake Shasta to see the emerging sections of old US 99.

http://cxmichael.blogspot.com/2013/03/us-99-in-lake-shasta-october-2008.html

Cool!  Thanks for posting.

[hm insulators]

Neat! Thank you!

[707]

Thanks for posting this! I find it very interesting how US 99 always seems to end up underwater in some way or another.

[triplemultiplex]

It's so interesting that they didn't demolish any of those old bridges before filling the lake.  Very cool.  I figured they must make good structure for fishing and sure enough, there's a dude fishing by that half-submerged truss bridge. 8)

[sdmichael]

I waited a bit for those people to move before I swam over to the bridge and tunnel. I ended up swimming over to the ridge beyond to see if anything else was visible. Nothing was.

[OCGuy81]

That is so cool, thanks for posting!

I read that there is a proposal to raise the dam at Shasta another 16 feet to yield a few million more cubic feet of water.  Wonder if the current bridge for the 5 will suffer the same fate, as that would have to be rebuilt.

[kkt]

That is so cool, thanks for posting!

I read that there is a proposal to raise the dam at Shasta another 16 feet to yield a few million more cubic feet of water.  Wonder if the current bridge for the 5 will suffer the same fate, as that would have to be rebuilt.

Maybe they could build it with interstate standard sightlines and shoulders this time.