COCKE COUNTY, Tenn. (WVLT) – If you are heading to and from North Carolina, you don’t have to put up with anymore long detours or country routes anymore.

Six months after a rocks slide shut down Interstate 40 near the state line, three of the four lanes of traffic have been restored.

The half year of no traffic meant no customers for several businesses in Cocke County. But now that the traffic is flowing, so is the cash.

"A lot of people were lost,” said Tiffany Frazier, who works at a deli off I40. “I was giving a lot of people directions, we sold quite a few maps as you could imagine."

“It’s the best news I’ve ever heard,” said a passing Cocke County man. “I live right around here and I am getting tired of giving directions.”

“If it hadn't been for the locals keeping us afloat, it would have been very bad for us,” said Fraizer.

Now, things are slowly getting back to some normalcy.

"Already here today,” Frazier said, “it’s been quite busy during lunch hour hopefully it will stay this way."

A hot fryer means hot business and for the deli, that means more Krispy, Krunchy Chicken for the much appreciated hungry travelers coming through.

For the summer, there will be two lanes east bound open, and one lane westbound.