It’s 7:59 a.m., 53° and partly sunny; the projected high is 61°. You may remember this weather as yesterday’s weather. Details are here.
Whatever action photos you might see, the photo above was 99.9 percent of last night’s BART protest. I was on BART platform detail at Civic Center, where it was just myself, 30 members of the BART tactical squad, and about a dozen commuters and members of the press. “Still reporting on the nothing happening?” asked one officer every time I passed by. Among the topics raised that evening as we killed time waiting for something to happen: quinceaneras, the proper way to wave to a crowd like a beauty queen, whether foam pellets shot from a shotgun hurt more or less than beanbags, how excited some BART employees were to be pulling down this much overtime, and where everyone went to college (“Go Bears,” said the man with the foam rifle).
In today’s news: BAD PIPE. The Chronicle has been doing some extremely thorough reporting on the PG&E gas line that exploded in San Bruno. The National Transportation Safety Board presents its conclusions on what caused the blast tomorrow, but PG&E has still failed to find any documents explaining how the pipe that exploded came to be — who built it, what it was made of, etc. This, as the Chron puts it, “adds to questions surrounding its management of the line that runs 51 miles from Milpitas, through San Bruno and into San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood.”
So that’s ominous.
The good news is: Hurricane Irene didn’t do much damage at all to the East Coast. You’ve probably already seen a few pictures, but I’ve got to say, these are pretty great.
