As oil nears, family-owned restaurant fears ‘devastating glob’
All around, there are signs of the last major disaster that wreaked havoc, when Hurricane Katrina smashed into the coast. Five years later, there are stretches along Mobile Bay where every third lot is vacant, where houses stood before Katrina.
“See there,” Bob Pope says, pointing to a slab of broken concrete along the water’s edge. “That was a nice restaurant.”
Pope’s own restaurant, the Yardarm, was knocked out for more than a year by Katrina.
Pope sometimes jokes that his restaurant – a local landmark that employs three generations of his family, including his 83-year-old mother – may become a pizza joint by summer’s end. He notes that they also serve a mean chicken.
He says it with sarcasm, but it also stings.
Everyone, he says, is waiting to see whether the oil slick ends up being an irritant to the community or “a devastating glob of something that just kills the area.”
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