Deanne writes in…

Please advise folks to avoid Sycamore Drive. We have a downed power line on the 500 block caused by a big tree that snapped in half during the storm.

Fortunately, no one was hurt. (Two cars were crushed, but it seems to have missed our neighbors’ house). The Decatur Fire Dept arrived immediately to block off the area, and GA Power is doing their thing. Now that it’s pitch dark, it’s dangerous to have folks out there doing u-turns near fire fighters.

Nate sends along this photo of Duck’s Comic Kitchen’s snazzy new food truck, “Wonderlicious on Wheels”.

According to a short Patch post yesterday, the truck will spend Monday in the East Decatur parking lot before hitting the road and heading into Atlanta this coming week to appease the food truck-crazed masses.  It will be selling everything from Duck’s donuts to veggie burgers, according to the blurb.

This food truck trend continues to gain steam around Atlanta while Decatur sits at the sidelines, unusually silent in the wake of another coming food/beverage storm.

We may feel like we can wait forever to “figure out” how food trucks fit into the Decatur food chain, but it seems to me like there are many parallels to farmer’s markets here.  Basically, if you don’t plant your stake early and show that you can draw the crowds, before you know it, we’ll be hearing a food truck version of “Well, a lot of the best farmer’s go to Morningside on Saturday morning.”

Will food trucks hurt brick-and-mortar retail business in a small city like ours?  I don’t know the answer to that.  But let’s have an open discussion about it now – restaurant owners, residents, retailers, etc – , so that if we decide, “No, it will most likely complement retail.”, we will have an actual shot of attracting the best food trucks to our city on a daily/weekly basis.