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A huge boulder slid into the roadway on OR 138E east of Glide on Thursday morning.

(ODOT)

UPDATE: 200-ton rock blown up on Oregon highway

Fairly impressive road delays across Oregon on Thursday include a massive bolder that rolled onto Oregon 138 east of Glide. Also a semi took out a major chunk of guard rail on Oregong 99E near Canby. Finally, a driver was rear-ended into a power pole on Southwest Tualatin Valley Highway in Beaverton causing a complete closure of that busy road.

ODOT tweeted these images of a slide east of Glide Oregon on Oregon 138

#pdxtraffic That thing is almost big enough to just drill a hole through and call it a tunnel! https://t.co/CAhDUQJUZa — PDX Traffic Alerts (@TrafficPortland) March 30, 2017

New BIG ROCK (12 feet tall, 200 tons) pictures from Oregon 138E, east of Glide. Stay tuned to https://t.co/SsqxkwoOBg & 511 for updates. pic.twitter.com/uqLiTIPBMj — Oregon DOT (@OregonDOT) March 30, 2017

#TrafficAlert HWY138 east of Glide is closed until further notice @OregonDOT and OSP on scene https://t.co/JRBPIyxfPz pic.twitter.com/gZzUzNut4G — Oregon State Police (@ORStatePolice) March 30, 2017

The Oregon Department of Transportation estimates one of the highway's lanes will open Thursday night. The agency said workers blew up the 200-ton rock earlier in the day. Cleanup and paving work will persist through at least the weekend, according to ODOT.

Near Canby, a semi left the road and crashed into a guard rail.

99e southbound closes at south end semi off road non injury expect delays pic.twitter.com/TaqcMW4Foe — Canby Fire (@CanbyFire) March 30, 2017

And in Beaverton a crash into a power pole has kept Southwest Tualatin Valley Highway closed all morning (and will remain closed into Thursday afternoon).

Expect TV HWY between Murray & Hocken to be closed most of the day. @portlandgeneral is hard at work. pic.twitter.com/OVTVRVYppS — Beaverton Police (@BeavertonPolice) March 30, 2017

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