It's the day after yesterday's big landslide and there's several developments, none of them really good.

First is the fact that nobody really knows when those 120 displaced people will be placed. It's not just the fact that some of the buildings are either severely damaged or severely creaky, but that the hill needs to be fortified so there won't be anymore landslides. All this could take months. As it is, authorities are worried that another bunch of rocks could slide down, taking the patio of a condo overlooking the mess with it. Residents of the dangling condo were also evacuated so authorities could assess the structural damage as well as well as determine just how safe things are. Also "red-tagged" (meaning too structurally damaged for anybody to go into) were three other apartment buildings and three stores on Broadway, including the Showgirls club. We might be off on our North Beach geography, but aren't those stores kind of a rock store/head shop/sex shop? You know, the kind of place you could buy a Metallica bong shaped like a vibrator? Or is it just we're always so drunk by the time we get to the end of Broadway that it all blends into one (damn Crowbar).

Because all the buildings were privately owned, authorities told the owners basically that it's up to them to get people to clean and things fixed. We have no idea if that's standard procedure but that sounds a bit harsh. There will be a meeting of the property owners today to figure this all out. As of yesterday, they hadn't quite figured out what to do.

Right now, displaced residents who don't have a place to stay are being housed at the Chinese Recreation Center on Mason Street. Yesterday, they were allowed to enter the buildings to gather their stuff.

All in all, the total amount of rocks that slid down was 30 feet high and 75 feet wide.