Good Morning, RVA: The prodigal sun
The prodigal sun returns! Rejoice!
Good morning, RVA! It’s 68 °F, and that’s pretty dang warm! Things continue to heat up an dry out like a piece of toast as the day wears on. I swear, today, if you squint hard enough while tilting your head slightly to the left, I think you’ll catch a glimpse of the sun.
The flood warning remains in effect until later tomorrow evening. If you come across a flooded road, don’t try and be a hero / water buffalo. Turn around.
Water cooler
The three-day bicycle race! It begins tomorrow! And (some) roads start to close today! Here’s everything you could want to know about parking and road closures. If you live or work downtown, your life will be impacted on Friday.
Did you think we were done talking about where to put a baseball stadium in Richmond? Ha! Foolish human! We will never finish talking about where to put a baseball stadium, it’s become part of who we are. Yesterday, a shadowy team of developers announced that they would be willing to privately fund the entire construction of a new stadium…located on the Boulevard. Who’s excited for more meetings and public hearings?
A train derailment in Lynchburg yesterday sent three crude-oil-carrying train cars into the James River. No need to freak out, though, our drinking water will be totally fine!
This morning’s longread
Four-year-old reviews Plum Restaurant (with her face)
Adorbz.
Any adult food critic can give a balanced, articulate critique of a restaurant; yet here at The Bold Italic, we instead continue to take adorable, illiterate four-year-olds to fancy restaurants for the most honest, least useful food reviews in the world. For our fourth installment, we took Elai Rubinsky (favorite food: “orange”) to Plum Restaurant in Oakland.
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“Elai took what could go down in history as the SMALLEST bite ever known to man and immediately insisted that it be taken off her fork – a pretty baller request that any adult food critic should consider adopting.”
That entire review is priceless.
I am not freaking out about drinking water quality, but EVERYONE should be freaking about the train derailment and oil explosion.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/va-oil-train-derailment-is-latest-wakeup-call-expert/
“Concern about the safety of oil trains was heightened last July when runaway oil train derailed and exploded in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, near the Maine border. Forty-seven people died and 30 buildings were incinerated. Canadian investigators said the combustibility of the 1.3 million gallons of light, sweet Bakken crude released in Lac-Megantic was comparable to gasoline.
“This is another national wake-up call,” said Jim Hall, a former NTSB chairman said of the Lynchburg crash. “We have these oil trains moving all across the United States through communities and the growth and distribution of this has all occurred, unfortunately, while the federal regulators have been asleep.”
Posted this on April 18 on Say No to a Stadium in Shockoe Bottom FaceBook page:
What happens if they build the Shockoe stadium and then there is an explosion or derailment of a nearby crude oil train?
http://www.vagazette.com/news/dp-nws-oil-shipments-yorktown-20140415,0,4247379.story
“These trains are traveling through Lynchburg along the James River through Richmond and on to the York County facility on the York River,” said Glen Besa of the Virginia chapter of the Sierra Club. “We’re concerned that a train derailment could result in an explosion and the loss of life, or an oil spill that could jeopardize our drinking water supplies and the environment.”