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A nearly 12-mile stretch of the Blue Ridge Parkway near Mount Pisgah was closed Wednesday as heavy rainfall raised the possibility of a landslide, the Asheville Citizen-Times reports.

The closed area includes a slope near Ferrin Knob that failed in 2002 and has been closely monitored since being repaired. "It has been slipping and sliding since then, but in the past three weeks, it has been moving way more than anyone expected it would," Bambi Teague, the Parkway’s chief of resource management, told the newspaper.

A mile of road near Tunnel No. 1 at Ferrin Knob is to remain closed, but crews were working to erect temporary barriers that would allow reopening the rest of the affected roadway by Friday.