While it took some commuters nearly an hour to get from San Marcos to Carlsbad on Palomar Airport Rd, by 6:35 PM Interstate 5 and Highway 78 were moving. There was some slowing on Northbound 5 at Palomar Airport Rd. (and North of the 78) and Westbound 78 near Emerald Drive. For more live Google traffic maps, click here.
Parts of Carlsbadistan began losing power today (Thursday, September 8, 2011) at around 4 PM. And soon, the power was out all over San Diego County as well as in part of Orange County and Mexico.
SDG&E’s outage report page showed the above image at 4:18 PM, but by 4:45 PM the page was no longer accessible. We’re not sure exactly why.
San Diego Gas & Electric is now saying via @SDGE that “This could go into tomorrow in some areas. Keep safety first.”
For the latest update, please follow us on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/carlsbadistan. Tweet us when power comes back on in your neighborhood.
Update: 5:31 PM: @SDGE We do not have an estimated restoration time. The power could be out through the night and into tomorrow.
Carlsbad State Beach Lifeguards, Park Rangers, and the Carlsbad Fire Department responded yesterday (September3, 2011) just before 5 PM to an injured swimmer near Walnut St. According to witnesses, the middle aged man injured his neck and was transported via ambulance to a local hospital.
The Carlsbad Police Department will be hosting a DUI checkpoint today in Carlsbadistan at Palomar Airport Rd and Innovation Way (Bressi Ranchers beware!) giving you all kinds of reason to avoid this stretch of road today.
While they’d probably catch a lot more people driving under the influence on Sunday night, September 4, 2011, is nice of the department to host this DUI checkpoint on Friday before everyone really even gets started drinking. It also means more officers can get their work done and still get to their own responsible Labor Day partying the rest of the weekend.
Mayor Matt Hall makes his first appearance in the Carlsbadistan State of The City Address video, and, as you might expect things are looking just fine. At least that’s the message that Mayor Hall and the council would like to project.
Carlsbad High School’s National Champion Lancer Dancers are back in school and kicking off their busy training schedule that will see them defend their title at Nationals, but that’s not all they’ve been doing lately. No, they’ve also been giving back to the community.
The Lancer Dancers are committed to giving back to the Carlsbad and the surrounding communities and have held multiple food drives and volunteered hundreds of community service hours as a team. They have given their time to so many worthy causes, but have found a real passion for sharing their love of dance and giving back to children, especially those in need.
For more details on the work the girls have done over the summer (as well as what they plan to do during the coming year) follow the jump. [click to continue…]
Carlsbadistan’s electric car start-up Aptera is apparently experiencing some difficult times and is now reportedly in the process of refunding all customer deposits taken for it’s high-mileage small car, according to a post on Triple Pundit.
Unfortunately, the company has experienced numerous setbacks, and the production dates have repeatedly been pushed back. Although originally scheduled to be delivered in late 2008, production deadlines have been missed and moved back as design changes continued to mount and funds dwindled. In 2010, Aptera was denied $184 million, in U.S. Department of Energy loans. The company re-applied for the DOE loans under a revised bill, but those monies have yet to be awarded.
It won’t be long and Carlsbadistan will have two, two, two times the train traffic rolling through the neighborhood in the middle of the night. The track expansion through Carlsbad is nearly completed and soon we’ll have twice the horns honking at the Tamarack, CVD, and Grand crossings. We can hardly wait. . .
The Carlsbad Community Theatre’s production of The Wiz opens August 5, 2011 at El Camino High School’s Truax Theatre in Oceanside. Yeah, they had to move the production North because of construction at Carlsbad High. For more information and to buy tickets visit Carlsbadcommunitytheatre.com.
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