A Kamsack man recently had the rare experience of watching a section of highway disappear in front of him recently.
At about 9:30 a.m. on April 21, James Perry was operating his Ford pick-up truck on Highway No. 5, east of Togo on the Manitoba side of the border where suddenly on the road in front of him he saw “a sliver of darkness” across the road.
It was very curious, Perry said, explaining that he slowed down his vehicle and saw a crack of about two feet in width across about three-quarters of the road.
The road had collapsed, and his front tires had fallen into the crack.
“The crack grew and grew,” he said. It became about six to eight feet deep.
Perry called Kevlen towing at Kamsack, and Kevin Boese came with a tow truck.
“That Kevin is a tow truck wizard,” Perry said, adding that within two hours from first seeing the “crack” in the road, he was out and on his way, with no damage to his vehicle.
That morning, the Roblin maintenance yard had been notified by staff at the Municipality of Roblin that there was a spot on Manitoba Provincial Road 363 washing out, said information from the Manitoba government.
“The staff responded and when they arrived they found a truck had driven into the washout,” the release said.
“The surface had been undermined due to an influx of water from a large beaver dam that broke upstream,” the release said. “The maintenance forces immediately requested the road to be closed and secured help from a local contractor to make the necessary temporary repairs.
“The road was fully open the next day,” it said.
