No need to reveal your ‘secret’ spots but pics would be nice!
(Solo is eerily silent)
GMX FL and SPadre are getting it huge.
It’s aimed right at us in the armpit. Surf looks fun right now and building (ahead of what’s supposed to be a 20 foot storm surge), but roadblocks are up everywhere you want to go. A lot of us are watching it here http://www.galveston.com/webcams/surfcam/frameset.html and here http://web.tampabay.rr.com/wolfy/.
Sucks I can’t go, and that Ike’s about to annihilate our sandbars, knock out a huge amount of electricity, and probably wreck some large amount of people’s property and livelihoods too, not to mention your gasoline prices until we get back up and running around here, but I hope someone gets it epic and posts the pics anyway, dammit.
Waves over here are looking pretty fun, for the gulf its real good. I am stuck at work and going nuts to get out and surf. I will try and post some pics once I get out. I feel sorry for the folks in Texas that will take the beating on this one, but that is something we all face living where we do. Epic(gulf standards) waves for some and massive destruction for many.
Hey 6inall, I used to live and surf in your neck of the woods (college at Eckerd from '95-'99). I surfed way more often, and way better waves, than I expected when I was there. I have a soft spot for the westside, and always love to see pics!
Agreed, was just checking out gulfster.com myself. Looks fun!
I’m so swamped I’m gonna miss it, but I hope someone gets the barrel of their life.
Corpus is a huge mess today, not anything near the clean lines of Gustav. Hopefully the fading swell will be better in a few days.
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No need to reveal your ‘secret’ spots but pics would be nice!
(Solo is eerily silent)
Eight foot backs at the main beach. I just sold my last two guns about two weeks ago. Could have used one of them today, but the 7’2’’ nugget held in fine at the point break I was surfing. I am glad we were all coasties in the boat ride over though. That was a bit of an adventure. Not so big at the pass from what I here, but tomorrow or even late today. A bunch of water in the gulf right now. Super high tide…even in the bays.
Solo,
Semper Paratus
Commisaryman 3rd class
Joined 1968
i hate how i can’t figure out photos
just open a photobucket account
for every photo on that account you can click on 1/4 options for posting on the net,
use the 4th one for any given picture, [IMG]
it auto copies.
just paste here
get it?
I hope to see those pics now!!
National Weather Service is talking about the storm surge
heading 10-15 miles inland in the worst areas.
I dont recall Bande Aceh having its tsunami push water that far inland???
After almost 30 years of surfing FL, I surfed my first Gulf wave thursday eve around 7pm. Then surfed again this mornig. Surprising power for avg size FL waves. Kind of reminded me of Hermosa Beach CR on a small day. Waves were shoulder high plus today and fun. Got a smokin left after a real sketchy drop over shallow water. Also got pitched several times ha! Good times!
EDIT: the storm fear mongering by the media is in high gear! I’ll bet they’ll show sail boats resting on the island causeways…not much else. If you own a sailboat in the path of a storm and it isnt moored good, might as well forget about it, not much you can do.
It never fails and this storm is no exception (except that it’s exceptional): some of the locals stayed in place on the barrier islands, and now we’re hearing phone calls from some of them on the radio and the surfers among them are still posting on the local board–destruction is bad near the water already on Galveston and Surfside–Bolivar Peninsula is underwater and people are over there still–Surfside is going submerged tonight and Gtown too. The surge itself will probably inundate tens of thousands of homes tonight. The hurricane winds will be whipping the 4 million people and 60 billion trees in the area at about 3-4 in the morning. The wind field is much bigger than the average cat 3 storm and the surge from it all is coming straight at us into the bay and up the channel. A foot of rain is expected, and the bayous are all going to be backed up with the surge.
Like, wow.
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It never fails and this storm is no exception (except that it’s exceptional): some of the locals stayed in place on the barrier islands, and now we’re hearing phone calls from some of them on the radio and the surfers among them are still posting on the local board–destruction is bad near the water already on Galveston and Surfside–Bolivar Peninsula is underwater and people are over there still–Surfside is going submerged tonight and Gtown too. The surge itself will probably inundate tens of thousands of homes tonight. The hurricane winds will be whipping the 4 million people and 60 billion trees in the area at about 3-4 in the morning. The wind field is much bigger than the average cat 3 storm and the surge from it all is coming straight at us into the bay and up the channel. A foot of rain is expected, and the bayous are all going to be backed up with the surge.
Like, wow.
This is a slow moving storm. We went through it with Ivan which tore us to bits. We have you guys in our thoughts and prayers Janklow. Stay safe.
The surge itself will probably inundate tens of thousands of homes tonight. The hurricane winds will be whipping the 4 million people and 60 billion trees in the area at about 3-4 in the morning. The wind field is much bigger than the average cat 3 storm and the surge from it all is coming straight at us into the bay and up the channel.
Relax dude.
There will be little to no cat 3 winds. The wind field youre referring to consists of 50-70 mph winds. Check the actual data of this buoy which is right on the eye wall as I write this at 7:52p EST.
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=42035
Yet the NHCs advisory is 110 MPH sustained. That’s almost a 100% exaggeration.
Everyone is in panic mode when they really dont need to be.
Just as I sparked up the poota to go online this morning:- The first news I noticed was “Storm as Big as Texas in the Gulf”…
I’m a long way from there, but I guess it would be either a VERY good time to be there or a VERY bad time…
Not " Relax Dude" either way for the locals…
Josh
Currently the buoy nearest the strongest part of the storm is reading 50 MPH winds…
Yawn…