When we reached the main blockage, I was shocked by the scale of the destruction. The three fallen trees were enormous, their trunks easily three feet in diameter. They had fallen in such a way that they overlapped each other, creating a wall of wood that completely blocked the road.
Behind the trees, a pile of rocks and boulders had slid down from the hillside when the tree roots had given way. The rock pile was at least ten feet high and stretched across the entire width of the road.
"This is going to take a while," one of my teammates muttered.
Derek assigned each of us to specific tasks. Some would work on cutting the trees into manageable sections, while others would focus on moving the smaller pieces out of the way.
I was assigned to work on clearing rocks from the slide area. It
