A STRICKEN car is encased in thick mud after being caught in a horror landslide three weeks ago.
The blue motor is almost completely submerged in dirt and sludge on the A816 near Ardfern, Argyll.
A blue motor is still plugged in the mud near ArdfernJohn McLellan
Another car with a trailer was also caught up in the landslideJohn McLellan
Other vehicles have also been left abandoned as diggers attempted to clear the area yesterday which was hit by torrential rain earlier this month.
The deluge of rain saw Oban – around 25 miles north – completely cut as due to flooding and avalanche of mud blocking the surrounding access roads.
At the time Andy Spence, Chief Executive of business group Bid4Oban, said: “This is the worst I have known flooding to happen so quickly.
The water just came up so quickly and it’s now horrendous.”
It’s three weeks since the biblical rainfall battered parts of the country.
And then came Storm Babet which tragically saw three people die in Scotland.
While the heavy rain and flooding persists in north east Scotland, the clear up is a slow process in the west with the A816 – Oban to Lochgilphead, still completely cut off after an avalanche of mud and rocks pushed vehicles off the road near Ardfern.
Add to that the decision to close the road further up the A816 after the bad weather damaged the bridge at Kilmelford.
The bridge over the River Ouse was scheduled to be replaced in 2025/26 but the recent damage has brought this forward and it is hoped to be finished next week.
But three weeks on the landslip past Ardfern is still waiting to be cleared which leaves drivers still having to navigate a twenty-two mile detour to get from Oban to Lochgilphead.
A spokeswoman for Argyll and Bute Council said “There appears to be a number of potentially unsafe and/or dangerous boulders between 10 and 20 tonnes on the hillside which we need to make safe, as well as clearing the significant tonnage of debris on the road, which is estimated to be around 5,000 tonnes!”
It comes after we told how Scots face travel chaos over the Halloween weekend after forecasters EXTENDED a severe weather warning.
The Met Office had initially warned of 72 hours of heavy rain and flooding affecting the north east of the country.
The alert issued on Thursday was due to end at noon on Sunday.
But the yellow warning has now been extended to Monday at midnight.
Diggers attempting to clear the road after torrential rainJohn McLellan
Vehicles remain stuck in the mud at Ardfern after landslideJohn McLellan
The clean-up operation hopes to allow roads to re-openJohn McLellan
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