Comments on: Road Open to San Jose

By: Caribbean Hatch

Caribbean Hatch — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:07:07 +0000

ICE was awesome during all of this. We had power and electricity through almost the entire time on Margarita Road – amazing. And I know that at the time that truck missed the little narrow bridge on the road here, the water lever above the bridge was about a meter and a half high, so those guys were truly lucky to get out of that truck since the cab was upside down, IN THE MUD and covered with at least 2 meters of water, bless ‘em.

Our ICE guys were really on the ball here – many thanks to them…

By: dominique schot

dominique schot — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:56:35 +0000

i wanted to thanks the ICE crew and all the volunteers from Manzanillo for their fast restoration of the light 6 posts went down and they worked in the pouring rain till 9 pm last night that show some good team work. hope in Puerto the bridge will go that fast.Thank you again good job

By: Caribbean Hatch

Caribbean Hatch — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:16:50 +0000

ps: For anyone wishing to take the Margarita Road alternate route, please see this map of the route and notes on where the bad areas are. It gets dangerous during heavy rains (see the photo of the overturned truck at the bottom of the page): http://www.tropicalreservations-cr.com/b/?p=1086

By: Caribbean Hatch

Caribbean Hatch — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:22:17 +0000

Hey Doug: I can confirm that Margarita Road is OPEN. (I live on it, 1.5 kilometers in) – I asked drivers coming and going both ways into Margarita. Most the the new $10k worth of lastrate that was put on a couple weeks ago has washed off though – sorry Ned! (he was in charge of the work on it) – and in parts it’s looking like a river bed – but it’s fine for 4×4 and dirt bikes.

Was it really only two days ago that I was wading in chest high water for 200 meters on this road to get my wife home and dogs home? we’ll all have some good stories to share at Arte Viva – ;^)