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This is what shutdown Great Highway last night? Really? That's, like, a handful of medium-sized small sandcastles. At best. (We really have turned into a too tender bunch here in SF, haven't we?)

According to Alert SF, "the Great Highway has been closed by the US Park Service because of sandunes [sic] forming near Great Highway at Noriega. Please use alternate routes to avoid this closure."

Evidence of a wintry day

• At about 8:00pm we saw three green flashes like lightning in the western sky. Then we heard sirens from from our local fire station (26th & anza) and other stations close by. Anyone know what happened?
  Continue reading "It's Like Thunder, Lightning, the Way You Knock Out Our Power Lines Is Frightening"

Photo of a new fire pit at Ocean Beach

A man stabbed a 15-year-old girl and the man who tried to stop the attack on her, in a Twin Peaks bakery on Saturday (link fixed per comments). The man, Scott Thomas, had just been released from San Quentin the day before, where he'd been in solitary confinement for attacking a guard. Thomas had been sent to San Quentin for violating the terms of his parole (which he's done 8 times since 2001 -- it looks like he went in originally on a mix of grand and petty theft-type charges). Thomas was caught by two police officers who were in the area, and who described him as covered with blood, carrying a hunting knife, and speaking and singing incoherently. The girl is improving, and the man who intervened suffered only minor injuries.

Here's todays recap of the news

As we mentioned earlier, those winds from last night's storm were awfully loud and when the wind is awfully loud, that means they're awfully strong. Like between 40-50 MPH strong. We're actually a little surprised we still have power as usually the power goes out at SFist HQ if there's even a mild gust. But while we still have power, there are plenty of people who don't have any right now. According to the latest news, about 52,000 people around the Bay Area are just this very minute wondering what one does without cable TV and the internet. This includes about 17,000 in the Santa Cruz and Monterey county areas and about 1,400 here in San Francisco.

Man, that was some storm last night. Nothing like being woken up in the middle of the night because it sounds like your apartment is about to explode -Speaking of winds, the winds closed the Great Highway as sand and other debris got blown onto it.

Visitors will revel in this ultimate after-hours adventure that includes more than 10 special animal presentations and feedings and continuous live entertainment...Highlights include the African Savanna at dusk; exclusive behind-the-scenes tours at the Zoo Hospital and Zoo Kitchen; the big cats feeding in the Lion House; animal grooming in the Family Farm; great food; plus much more. Marvel at our magnificent American bald eagle, Sequoia, meet Smokey Bear, and play the “Feces Species Game”!

We are getting very psyched up as the annual Stern Grove festival opens next Sunday. Every city in the world can offer free live entertainment, but only SF can do it with such spectacular backdrops. Fireworks, shmireworks, we say, unless we have the bay in the background. Bike races are boring, they run in circles, unless they follow the course of the Bullit car race. And summer concerts are just not the same when they take place ensconced in a beautiful eucalyptus grove.