No power and a missile range

Friday’s dinner at Santa Cafe was quite interesting. When we arrived there we were greeted with a candlelit bar - only candles and nothing else. The bar lady told us that a prior power outage had left parts of the restaurant without power, including the bar. Soon after we ordered our dinner, the power went out completely. As we had ordered our entrees already, we were assured that the kitchen would complete all placed orders, but no new orders were accepted. Now imagine a very busy and small kitchen operating without exhausts. All doors to the kitchen were opened and windows all over the restaurant were used to try to get the smoke out of the restaurant. It almost felt like having dinner on the patio, only the temperature was a bit lower than expected. Like the Ore House, quoted in the article above, I’m sure tons of other businesses in town lost a lot of money that evening.

Then yesterday afternoon I made the mistake of going on Guadalupe Street after doing some grocery shopping. I’m talking about the section between Cerrillos Road and Paseo de Peralta. I’m sure you heard about the dismal state of Guadalupe since the pavement had been stripped just before Christmas. If not, then just read those letters to the editor of the Santa Fe New Mexican.
Things have gotten 10 times worse since then. Driving at 4-5 mph I was rocked like in a roller-coaster. The whole area feels like a missile test range with impact craters all over the place. If you love your car, don’t go on this road.

Won’t take long before the area around Agua Fria looks like this:

pothole

2 Responses to “ No power and a missile range ”

  1. Amber
    March 7th, 2008 | 2:14 pm

    1.did your car get ruined?
    2.did that make you mad?

  2. March 7th, 2008 | 2:24 pm

    did your car get ruined?,and did that make you mad?

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