VIDEO. As many of you know, the evening of March 12 brought significant traffic delays to many frustrated residents of Half Moon Bay and the greater Coastside. The unexpected closure of the Tom Lantos Tunnel on Highway 1 required Coastside residents who use that route to take Highway 92 instead. However, on 92 there was planned […]
Power Report By City of HMB Vice Mayor Adam Eisen
ARTICLE. Last week, we had a 60KD (60,000 volt) transmission line that had an insulator that cracked (there are usually a few on each transmission line). Due to our location with the salty air, which speeds up the corrosion of the equipment, and rough storms the insulator broke. When one cracks, you must replace them […]
CAL Fire FIRE RISK Report ~ Kings Mtn. 2nd and El Granada 6th on Fuel Reduction List
ARTICLE / LINK. Do you have 100 feet of DEFENSIBLE SPACE around your home? Here is the problem: #2 Kings Mountain Roadside, 467 acres, 271,096 ~ 2nd largest affected population #16 El Granada Quarry Park Fuel Break, 250 acres, 100, 433 ~ 6th large affected population 100 Feet of Defensible Space is the Law In […]
FRS/GMRS Radio (WalkieTalkies) Basic Training ~ Learn How to Communicate in a Disaster, Part 1
TRAINING POWERPOINT. Communications Neighborhood Command Post must maintain communications with all teams during an incident. Use whatever works: phone, cell, texting, pen and paper, smoke signals …. But when all else fails, radio still works. To be effective, we need to learn Emergency Radio Communications! About FRS Radios Also known as “Walkie Talkies” No license […]
Learning from the 1989 SF EARTHQUAKE ~ by Stewart Brand (Spring 1990)
PHOTO-ESSAY. This article—which first appeared in much briefer form in the Chronicle—is an attempt to reconstruct the confused events of that first two hours at Divisadero and Beach, and to distill some advice that might be useful to anyone wishing to survive a disaster and to help others to do the same. The article is dedicated […]
Lost Car Found at Montara State Beach After Valentine’s Storms
PHOTOS by Dan Stegnik. Yesterday, Dan took these pictures. In 2017, locals Dan and Thu-ha Nguyen spent a lot of time rappelling down the Montara cliffs to get the space where Richard Moss’s Hyundai Tiburon went over the cliff at low tides. They tried diving at high tides until the sand came in and hid the ocean […]
Four Boats Beached in Pillar Point Harbor After Valentine’s Storms!
PHOTO ESSAY. In front of the “Herring Buildings” in Pillar Point Harbor, Valentine’s Week storms. Bigger Anchor, maybe? This boat was pushed up at high tide, with a 50 mph winds, in a storm surge. It is not going to move without a chain saw. They will try to wobble it over and pop […]