A rock slide on Wabasha Street South took out a tree, a railing and left slabs of limestone on the road about 3:30 p.m. Saturday.

St. Paul police blocked the road to traffic and kept the curious out of harm’s way. No one was injured.

Wabasha Street will remain closed from Plato Boulevard to Cesar Chavez until the bluff’s condition is fully assessed, the city said in a news release Saturday evening. Outside experts will be brought in to help make a determination about the slope’s stability.

In the meantime, city officials are asking people to steer clear of the area until the street reopens.

Nhia Yang was playing basketball across the street when the slide happened.

“It sounded like a big boom,” he said. “I came running over and saw a tree and rocks in the road.”

It’s not the first time this has happened, according to Bob Bejblik who owns the property on top of the hill. He’s lived there since 1976.

He pulled up pictures on his phone of a similar slide that happened in February last year where the slide blew out a stairway that used to be along the wall.

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He was in his driveway at the top of the hill when the slide happened.

“I didn’t hear anything,” he said.

His first clue that something was wrong was when a firefighter came walking along his street and told him he was trying figure out where the slide had happened.

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“I made sure he (the mayor) could hear me,” Bejblik joked. “I said my property taxes keep going up, but I keep losing property.”