Well that's a real bummer. It looks like Cafe Evolution is making way for some intelligent design. Um, not to say that Vegans have anything to do with creationism, but the joke was just begging to be made. That place was pretty awesome. I'd recommend you check it out before it's too late, but then you'll just be bummed when it's gone.
Monthly Archive for August, 2005
For those of you who asked about my sister's reaction to the hurricane, here's the correction to my "I assume she evacuated but I haven't heard back yet." This is what I know as of 10 pm last night:
Instead of evacuating, she was going to stay at the hotel she worked at, but apparently the hotel corp decided to shut it down completely and kicked everyone out, so they went home. She says this of their situation:
We decided to do a vertical move and are on the 4th floor of a cement apartment building; the apartment belongs to friends of ours and there are a couple other friends in the building who have also decided not to leave New Orleans either.
Said apartment is located here.
As far as I can tell, most of the flooding so far is in the north and east parts of the city (up by the lake) coming from a break in the levee apparently somewhere along that little canal directly NE of my sister's near where I-10 crosses it.
Google Earth even suggests that she's +3 feet of elevation, which is pretty good for new orleans.
But uh, she's also near the superdome, and one report I read suggested there were 3 feet of water outside of the superdome at that point.
I'll have an update once we hear from her again, but in the meantime, there's not really much else to say.
The San Francisco Bicycle and Walking Map. This map has some easily readable topographic information about the city. If you're walking or biking in the city, this looks like the tool to have.
Andy T's Yelp.com reviews. Short stories in the form of local reviews weren't a genre I was expecting, but this guy's reviews are pretty great.