It was an amazingly beautiful and sunny morning today in Carlsbadistan, but just as the Tamarack parking lot began to fill at around 10:40 AM, the “wall of fog” crept in off the ocean and socked us in to our traditional July 4th weather.
The beach is now loaded with people who are hoping the sun will win the war by noon. Maybe lighting off more fireworks will help. . . just kidding.
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Happy 232nd Birthday America!
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While the O-side Police Department is giving residents a one-month grace period before enforcing the new “hands free cellphone law (California Vehicle Code 23123 and 23124)” that goes into effect tomorrow (July 1, 2008), Carlsbad officers are going to dive right in and begin handing out tickets right away, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Carlsbad police Lt. Kelly Cain said his city’s officers will be given the same discretion in issuing tickets or warnings that they have with any other traffic violation.
So remember to keep those cellphones below the window when you’re texting your way down Coast Highway.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
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It was just another one of those perfect days at the beach that makes Carlsbadistan world famous. But then we’re a little bit biased, obviously.
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This evening (June 26, 2008) at approximately 5:12 pm, traffic on the 4900 block of El Camino Real slowed down in both North and South lanes after two silver Toyotas collided in front of Bobby’s Hideaway Cafe.
The driver of the Carolla, a woman in her 20s, was unhurt, however, the driver of the Matrix, a woman who appeared to be in her late 60s was a bit shaken by the crash and was “pretty shaken up by her airbags” according to one witness.
Carlsbad Fire, Paremedic, and Police units responded within minutes.
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According to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune the City of Carlsbad is still kicking when it comes to the California Department of Parks and Recreations plans to charge beach visitors $8 a day for parking in the lot at Tamarack.
Mayor Bud Lewis announced Tuesday that the City Council voted 4-1 in closed session, with Councilwoman Julie Nygaard dissenting, to possibly sue the state Coastal Commission for allowing the parks department to install a fee machine.
We didn’t think the City Council had it in them, but we appreciate their seemingly better-late-than-never attention to the issue.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
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We finally pulled the plug on Time Warner Cable. We could not continue to justify paying $140 a month for a system that never worked properly (OnDemand especially).
No sooner did we quit cable than we started hearing that AT&T was sending people door-to-door in Carlsbadistan selling their new “100% digitally delivered television,” Internet, and phone service called U-verse. We’ve written about U-verse before and the reviews have not been good.
Today we got the following from a reader who switched to AT&T’s U-verse for about a week, but is now going back to cable:
“AT&T sucks! Hard selling (contracted sales force) Girls roaming the neighborhoods selling the savings of AT&T. . . My whole bundle of services was down for 3 days+ (including the phone). All the techs are nice but it gets down to a unreliable service. So now we are on the Disconnect AT&T program and going back to Time Warner.”
If you’ve signed up for AT&T’s U-verse service, please let us know how it’s going. We’re personally going to just stick with Internet and Apple TV, but there may be others who would like to know what they’re getting into before then go through all the hassles.
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Work has finally begun on the parking pay station at the Tamarack Surf Beach parking lot that we first reported on November 17, 2007 when the California State Parks and Rec department first filed to build “an automated fee collection device in the Tamarack day use lot.”
Though we had hoped that the City of Carlsbad would work something out with the State of California it looks like that plan failed. Paying $8 for beach parking in Carlsbad won’t be long now.
Read what Carlsbad resident Richard Riehl thinks about this in his “freelance” North County Times column.
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According to 10news.com 10 more dead birds found around San Diego County, including Carlsbad, have tested positive for the West Nile Virus.
We are finding more evidence of the virus in urban areas rather than rural and mountain areas,” said Gary Erbeck, director of the DEH. “West Nile virus is a preventable disease,” he said. “You should protect yourself by using insect repellent, as well as inspect your backyard each weak for mosquito breeding areas.”
If you find dead birds in your neighborhood you can report them by visiting the county’s www.SDFightTheBite.com website.
[Link: 10news.com]
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Carlsbadistan’s Jeff Jarrard, 35, (and his children Kennedy, 6; London, 5; baby Kingston, one month, and Emerson, 16 months) was featured in a San Diego Union-Tribune story on the history, inspiration and other data behind Father’s Day.
Father’s Day lags Mother’s Day in one other way – it became an official holiday 58 years after President Woodrow Wilson’s 1914 order honoring motherhood. . . . The inspiration for Father’s Day came from an original Mr. Mom – William Jackson Smart from Spokane, Wash., who raised six children after his wife died. After hearing a Mother’s Day sermon in 1909, Smart’s daughter encouraged churches to add a Father’s Day observance. The idea caught on, but it wasn’t until 1972 that President Richard Nixon signed it into law.
Happy Father’s Day to all the guys who care, love, and support their families.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
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