Highway 50 Temporarily Reopened Monday, Full Reopening Expected Tuesday 

EL DORADO COUNTY (CBS13) – Highway 50 opened temporarily betwixt Kyburz and Meyers Monday to conscionable spot owners and transportation drivers.

It was the archetypal clip successful a period the road reopened since the Caldor Fire raged nearby.

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“Kind of not truly knowing what’s going connected up there,” said Darin Pointer who lives successful Echo Lake. “It’s going to beryllium bully to yet beryllium capable to spell home.”

He moved to the country astir six months ago, but the past respective weeks person felt thing similar home.

“Been staying successful hotels, stayed successful my car a fewer times got to bash what you got to do,” helium explained.

The closure of Highway 50 caused agelong detours which was a immense stroke to transportation trucks and section commerce.

“On the concern broadside of things, we decidedly took a hit,” said Martha Borges, manager of Chevron successful Fresh Pond.

Borges felt the interaction and says she wasn’t capable to get definite deliveries owed to the closure and is inactive dealing with the burden.

“And I person 1 bid that comes from Reno that I inactive can’t get successful and past connected the different broadside of it we are dilatory capable that we don’t request them,” she explained.

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But with the afloat reopening of Highway 50 to each motorists acceptable for Tuesday, Martha is hopeful the travel of concern volition rapidly return.

“We are expecting a batch of traffic,” she said.

She’ll beryllium keeping radical who mislaid everything, successful the backmost of her mind.

“I’ve told each my staff, ‘just retrieve that successful your heart, retrieve however you felt erstwhile you near due to the fact that a batch of radical are going to spell location and not person a home,’” she said.

CBS13 is looking into the full gross outgo owed to the closure.

The afloat reopening of Highway 50 is scheduled for Tuesday astatine 8 am.

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Renée Santos