About That Drive Home...

As I reported to you yesterday, I rode home from Santa Cruz to Culver City in one of the worst storms I have ever witnessed in California. So, I read this with great interest today on Yahoo:

The latest storm swept through Northern California on Sunday, delaying about half of the flights arriving at San Francisco International Airport and intermittently closing two main routes across the Sierra Nevada. Both were opened Monday morning.

Neato! This is, of course, exactly my style...choosing the worst weather day of the year to drive up the California Coast. A day when the 5 Freeway is shut down north of Los Angeles, a day that breaks records for Southern California precipitation, a day when $2 million worth of sand is eroded off of the beach at Santa Barbara.

Really! This is in that same Yahoo story:

In Goleta, near Santa Barbara, surging high tides washed away tons of sand deposited last year as part of a $2 million beach-preservation project.

Most of the 80,000 cubic yards of sand used to curb erosion has been swept away, leaving a jagged wall of sand and dirt and forcing officials to close part of the coastline as a safety precaution.

A $2 million beach preservation project? There are so many beaches already in Southern California, that don't require state funding to remain beaches...why are we spending $2 million to build a new beach! In Santa Barbara, of all places. You can't get doped up and drive into a crowded bar in Santa Barbara without hitting a beach.