PCH should be clear by the time of this posting. They will be back on Thursday to complete the re-surfacing of PCH through town. On Thursday they will close the middle lanes in both directions leaving one lane in each direction open.
Fact: The city requires they stop work at 10 AM. You can't block the sidewalk during the day. So 10 AM it is. They figured it would take two days to complete painting the front of the shop. Could have taken half-a-day otherwise.
Work on PCH should be on the south bound side all day. Considering the morning traffic PCH is not the place to be.
Tides:
04:34 AM 4.50 feet High Tide
06:18 AM Sunrise
10:17 AM 2.23 feet Low Tide
03:47 PM 4.41 feet High Tide
04:51 PM Sunset
10:28 PM 0.42 feet Low Tide
Only in Laguna would this make perfect sense. And on many levels.
In the dictionary there are 18 noun definitions of sense, 4 verb definitions of sense, and for good sense 3 additional idioms.
In Laguna we see ALL nouns, verbs, and idioms in this sign.
What's an idiom? An expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket or hang one's head, or from the general grammatical rules of a language, as the table round for the round table, and that is not a constituent of a larger expression of like characteristics.
That, my friends, is the central core of Laguna Beach. We're an idiom.
All day they will be putting cable underground through downtown. We think it's Glenneyre, Forest, Beach.
The final phase of re-surfacing PCH through Laguna is under way. Today they will be putting down the slurry on the outside north-bound lane of PCH. Tomorrow they will do the outside land of the south-bound side of PCH. Wednesday is a holiday. Thursday they will be doing the TWO inside lanes of PCH. That means both north and south PCH will be impacted. It's almost over.
Mission Hospital Laguna Beach is holding the vaccine clinic from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. Monday.
The OC Register is reporting this info but their computer servers are down so I have no other information.
Click the link below for details.
Mission Hospital Laguna Beach - 31872 Coast Highway - Laguna Beach, California 92651 Phone: (949) 499-1311
PS: After reading the hospital's info on the swine flu clinic I will not be going. It's first come, first served at a site that's famous for it's lack of parking. Plus traffic that time of day is not good. Plus it's at the peak hours for the hospital. I can come up with a hundred ways to make this a much better system and at little or no cost to the hospital.
Let's see I'll be standing around with hundreds of others and every one of us could be carrying the virus. Want to get the swine flu then attend one of these disorganized clinics for getting vaccinated. Good luck.
That may be the only place where traffic is light in the downtown area. With all the street work going on today it may be best just to avoid the area altogether. We will see.
See previous post for details.
Tides:
03:48 AM 4.01 feet High Tide
06:17 AM Sunrise
07:57 AM Last Quarter
08:41 AM 2.87 feet Low Tide
02:16 PM 4.65 feet High Tide
04:52 PM Sunset
09:34 PM 0.21 feet Low Tide
Tides:
02:45 AM 3.61 feet High Tide
06:17 AM Sunrise
06:34 AM 3.08 feet Low Tide
12:44 PM 5.08 feet High Tide
04:53 PM Sunset
08:30 PM 0.02 feet Low Tide
I can't wait for the Library to reopen. I didn't think I would miss it that much. Oh but I do. Open, open, open.
Tides:
01:20 AM 3.40 feet High Tide (Forget it the beach is closed.)
04:53 AM 2.90 feet Low Tide
06:16 AM Sunrise
11:27 AM 5.59 feet High Tide
04:53 PM Sunset
07:20 PM -0.18 feet Low Tide
This just in from the office of the City Manager, Ken Frank:
Coast Highway Resurfacing – The Caltrans schedule for slurry sealing Coast Highway has changed again. Since they have fallen behind schedule, they are going to jump into the Downtown area next week to get done with this area before Thanksgiving. They will then move back to the south part of town. With this schedule change there will be three projects going on in the Downtown area that will certainly create some traffic problems. The Third Street Retaining Wall project closes the downhill side of Third Street. That diversion combined with the Downtown fiberoptic installation and the slurry seal blocking of side streets onto Coast Highway will test the patience of many and might require some Police direction during peak times.
On Monday a crew started digging up PCH. They were also seen marking up Glenneyre St and downtown. Now Ken Frank tells it like it is, or something to that effect.
Citywide Fiberoptic Installation – Next G Networks is installing some backbone conduit for fiberoptic communications cable at various locations. This week they are working on Coast Highway in South Laguna. They needed to get that work done before Caltrans does the final slurry seal of the road. Next week they will be working through the Downtown area. Most of the installation is done by boring. The work in the Downtown will be done before the middle of the month. There are utility markings all over the pavement in the Downtown that will be removed by the contractor when they are done.Ken stop giving us completion dates because you, I, and the rest of the world know they're meaningless. Then again if the contractor makes parking at Zinc difficult then the stuff will hit the fan otherwise you will told to buck up and take it.
I'm taking bets on how many more days they stay anchored out there. They haven't moved since last week. It's now week two.
Delays in completing Camp Inamuck (Temporary Homeless Shelter at the ACT V parking lot.) No solution for a permanent shelter. And the homeless built shelters at Camp Runamuck (Main Beach and Heisler Park) getting bigger and bigger everyday.
What's normal? Just askin'.
Tides:
03:53 AM 2.60 feet Low Tide
06:15 AM Sunrise
10:28 AM 6.04 feet High Tide
04:54 PM Sunset
06:12 PM -0.42 feet Low Tide
01:20 AM 3.40 feet High Tide (Beach Closed)
I was going to say 'Trying Something New' but Adobe Flash isn't new. For me to create Flash web pages now that's new.
I've been trying out Adobe's Lightroom program. Don't ask me about the program because I really don't know. Adabe made the beta for Lightroom 3 available to download and install so I'm giving it a try.
One of it's abilities is to create Flash web pages. Now all of Adobe Photoshop applications, which Lightroom is one, has some ability to create Flash pages but this is still a first for me.
I put together a group of photos I took during the Plein-Air Quick Draw competition on Saturday, October 17, 2009. Their are no captions - yet. If it works for you then enjoy. If it fails in anyway I would appreciate an email at editor@lagunabeat.com.
PS: To get back to Laguna Beat, the blog, use the Back button on the browser.
Here is the link: www.lagunabeat.net/flsh/plein-air/index.html
Just one question for our city council: How are you going to walk the beach with that foot in your month? The council is always reacting to problems but NEVER thinking the problem through. Make us all suffer, including the police who have to enforce the new NO Stopping at night law for the Laguna beaches. I'm not even going to bother with the link to the newspaper stories. We all know what's going on. Hello ACLU.
Tides:
03:11 AM 2.31 feet Low Tide
06:14 AM Sunrise
09:40 AM 6.34 feet High Tide
04:55 PM Sunset
05:11 PM -0.64 feet Low Tide
11:59 PM 3.43 feet High Tide
Tides:
02:35 AM 2.04 feet Low Tide
06:13 AM Sunrise
08:59 AM 6.48 feet High Tide
04:18 PM -0.77 feet Low Tide
04:56 PM Sunset
10:53 PM 3.61 feet High Tide
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