Transit gets its own post: the Apps aren't the Rockies but they are big, big mountains, and so there are only so many E-W interstate (expressway/highway) passes through them. A major southern pass is washed out/in trouble at multiple points. This is very bad. Long-term bad.

They'll work like ants to get I40 passable again but it won't be fast. Long haul trucking will need to find another pass, much further north, and a LOT in the US is transported via semi-truck. (Meanwhile to get I40 up, workers are pulled off local roads, with people trapped up mountains.)

it's hard to explain what it means to lose half of i-40 to europeans