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[aastra]

 

...beaches were "piled high with drift, often to a height of sixty feet or more...

 

That was in the era before modern height restrictions. You would never be able to build something so tall on the waterfront today.

[todd]

 
 
These chairs will certainly get lots of use by sweaty joggers and cyclists.

Finally sat in one of the red reclined chairs. Turns out just cheap ish plastic, see how long those last. Comfortable.. like a dental chair.

[sebberry]

The wind had settled down but there was a steady drizzle and a nice breeze.  Look at all the cyclists sitting on their bikes with a warm drink and a book enjoying the fall weather.

 

[Nparker]

Sure no cyclists, but you must have seen hordes of picnickers.

[sebberry]

Sure no cyclists, but you must have seen hordes of picnickers.

You know it!
 

 

[max.bravo]

Sad to think you’d normally see quite a few cars parked down there in this weather. Enjoying the stormy fall wind and spray from inside the car with a hot coffee. But because lisa helps doesn’t own a car nobody gets to enjoy it anymore.

[kitty surprise]

Someone should set up a webcam for a year, and make a timelapse video of the benches, stopping every time there's a user with a caption of the date.

[sebberry]

Sad to think you’d normally see quite a few cars parked down there in this weather. Enjoying the stormy fall wind and spray from inside the car with a hot coffee. But because lisa helps doesn’t own a car nobody gets to enjoy it anymore.

 

Why not ride down there, sit on your bicycle with a poncho, sip coffee from a reusable cup (the insulated ones so your hands don't get warm from it) and read from your Kindle in a ziploc bag so it doesn't get wet?  Sounds like a lovely cozy evening.  You could even a light a LED candle so you're not adding to the heat island with open flame.

[todd]

^I recommend a memory foam over a gel bike seat just as comfortable without the risk of a messy blowout.

[aastra]

Come on, this run of lousy weather was totally unexpected. Nobody could have predicted it. You guys are acting like the CoV has a crystal ball or something. And anyway, when has anyone ever expressed interest in sitting down there inside parked vehicles during bad weather? I'm pretty sure that's a new request.

[todd]

Come on, this run of lousy weather was totally unexpected. Nobody could have predicted it. You guys are acting like the CoV has a crystal ball or something. And anyway, when has anyone ever expressed interest in sitting down there inside parked vehicles during bad weather? I'm pretty sure that's a new request.

No.

[aastra]

I should have said ouija board instead of crystal ball?

[Spy Black]

Whaaaat? ... Clover Point parking lot was always full during bad weather. Clover Point is (was) literally the #1 spot in the COV for storm-watching, of which 95% of the folks enjoyed storm-watching from inside their vehicle.

 

The revisionist history process in the COV (presumably to justify bad or agenda laden political choices) is pretty amazing to watch play out ... but as a 65 year old who's lived in the CRD all my life, I've storm-watched with my parents dozens, if not hundreds of times from Clover Point ... and then as a parent, I took my daughter down there many dozens of times to storm-watch. 

 

In other words, I'm not relating Clover Point stories through my proverbial, agenda laden hat, rather I'm relating my own personal real world experience of storm-watching from inside a vehicle down on Clover Point, and doing so consistently over a period of 65 years.

[Victoria Watcher]

i think aastra was joking.  

[Spy Black]

i think aastra was joking.  

Ahhhhh, I get it now

 

Luckily though, my post still applies to the entirety of Victoria Council, and all the bureaucratic planning boneheads that formulated and perpetuated this ridiculous transformation of Clover Point into a forlorn wasteland.

[todd]

I should have said ouija board instead of crystal ball?

I always liked SimCity 3000.

[Mike K.]

Today Clover Point has a scent of burning plastic, uranium, plutonium, tires, cargo bikes and bunker fuel.

[mbjj]

I agree with Spy Black. Been going to Clover Pt. for an awfully long time and enjoying it. I don't think we ever failed to find a parking spot, not even during a great thunder storm about ten years ago. Now it's just the dead zone. 

[Victoria Watcher]

Today Clover Point has a scent of burning plastic, uranium, plutonium, tires, cargo bikes and bunker fuel.

Any negatives though?

[Susan]

There was a fire on a cargo ship. it is likely from that.