Last year the ASP World Surf Tour stopped off at Long Beach New York - what an outcry, as there're 'never any waves...' - they had incredible waves! Now its been upped a notch further this year, as 'Sandy' makes landfall tonight. A tropical hurricane, sucked towards land by another cold front in the west, compressed by a northerly high pressure and freezing winds - its a confluence of hellish weather proportions. Surfing has been banned. Already the waves are onshore and massive, a spring tides coming, as its full moon, and the anticlockwise swirl is starting to stack up the sea, ready to surge over the shallow beaches tonight and the area has been warned to evacuate. As I see it, every effort is being made to accommodate the people in 'Zone A' - the lowest lying areas, to warn them and relocate them.
Heed the warning - this is no ordinary storm...and stay safe till the morning.
Deon
Pic:NYT
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