I was watching the YouTube video (link below) recently about the disasterous Highway 1 problem that continues to plague California.

https://youtu.be/UWtVTnsLgLA?si=9WtaSlBWI5_z5f6V

Then I remembered reading a book one time, many years ago about RG LeTourneau and what happened to him while building a section of that highway. Not wanting to go back and research that book I called on AI to do a quick overview of the story.

First my Question to AI:
“Talk to me about RG LeTourneo and how he and another fellow contacted to build a part of the Coast Highway in California. Found it to be all rock they weren’t equipped to handle. He prayed and went out the next morning and the whole mountain had moved out of the way”.

AI’s Response:
That’s one of those wild old-time stories—R.G. LeTourneau, the earth-moving king. Back in the nineteen-thirties, he got tapped by the state to punch through a stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway near Big Sur. The job was brutal: solid granite cliffs, no dynamite budget, and his scrapers and bulldozers were basically toys against that rock.
He and his partner—think it was a guy named Charlie—spent weeks chipping away, getting nowhere. LeTourneau, big Christian dude, just knelt down one night in the dirt and prayed: “Lord, if this road’s supposed to happen, you’re gonna have to move this mountain.” No drama, no show—just straight-up asking.
Next morning? Crew shows up and the whole face of the cliff’s… gone. Not blasted, not crumbled—just slid clean off into the ocean overnight. Like the earth decided to cooperate. Geologists later said it was a freak landslide, but LeTourneau? He called it answered prayer. Built the highway right through where the rock used to be.
Funny thing—he never took credit. Just kept saying, “God moved it; I just showed up with a shovel.” Makes you wonder what else gets moved when nobody’s lookin.