Man 'Surfs' Flooded Streets of Aptos After Atmospheric River

KSBW ^ | Dec 28, 2022 | Josh Copitch

[nickcarraway]

A viral video shows a man "surfing" flooded streets after a recent California storm originated in Aptos.

A category 3 atmospheric river struck the Central Coast of California, flooding areas of Santa Cruz County. Residents in the Rio Del Mar neighborhood in Aptos woke up to major flooding on Tuesday from relentless rain pouring down overnight.

But for some people, the flooding created an opportunity.

The video shows an SUV dragging a man on a surfboard through the flooded streets.

Watch the video in the video player above.

[nickcarraway]

Man "surfs" flooded streets of Aptos after atmospheric river

[rktman]

Recent AR storm? Recent? Still going strong at our place. Woke to rain, lots of it and now transitioned to nasty slushy soggy snow.

[sit-rep]

atmospheric river... just plain stupid and I will ignore anytime seen in the future...

[rktman]

😂😂😂👍. Have they named this “storm’ yet? juicy Lucy might fit. ❄🌬

[txeagle]

Apparently wokesters have to conjure up these grandiose terms to compensate for their lack of life experience.

[Texas Fossil]

As a young boy, I did that after a heavy snow. On a home maded sled. Two heavy pieces of oak cut on band saw and shaped with block plane. Smoothed with sanding block and waxed.

Rope was tied to a hole in the plywood top of the sled. short piece of rope allowed me to stay stable, but easy to release.

It was fun.

I lived next door to the school. The track field was straight out my back door, across the non-existant alley.

It was an ideal place to drag it.

[nickcarraway]

I’d prefer a nice atmospheric lake.

[nickcarraway]

Is it woke? Looks unsafe and like something authorities wouldn’t like. Where is his mask?

[nickcarraway]

Still going strong here, and I imagine in Aptos, too.

[Deaf Smith]

Did same after a snow; hood of a VW towed behind a long bed C10.

[x]

A category 3 atmospheric river

How do they know it wasn't a category 4 bomb cyclone or thundersnow or a heat dome or a category 7 polar vortex or a firenado or a derecho or a category 9 haboob?

[sjmjax]

And, that is not “surfing”. Continuing downward spiral in journalism.

[Texas Fossil]

The things that excites youth and that leave lasting memories of good times is amazing.

Today, so much of life and growing up is far far far removed from reality.

We saw nature for what it is.

Especially here in the Big Nothing between Ft. Worth and Lubbock. Smile. (family here since 1889)

[Thommas]

How do they know..?

Short answer, they don't know Jack. Apparently, reoccurring seasonal weather baffles the Enviros, and they have to
invent terms for events that they don't bother to research.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The storms just keep coming. It's another one of those epic winters that happen every 10 to 15 years. We had one in 1983 that wiped out the private road to our investment property in Scotts Valley.

The major reservoirs are at 50% to 75% full, so there is room to take the water.

Accuweather -->

Even though a long train of storms from the Pacific will continue to roll ashore through early January, there is the potential for the major storm to unload 8-16 inches of rain in a narrow zone of Northern and Central California during the last part of 2022.

In some locations, an AccuWeather Local StormMax™ rainfall of 20 inches will be possible with the storm, and much of that rain is likely to fall over a 24-hour stretch through Saturday night.

Enough rain will fall in the zone from San Francisco to Sacramento and many other locations in Northern and Central California to trigger urban, small stream and river flooding. As of Saturday morning, San Francisco had received over 2 inches of rain as it continued to pour down heavily. Four to 8 inches of rain could fall near Sacramento.

[dayglored]

Water skiing

[nickcarraway]

The storms just keep coming. It's another one of those epic winters that happen every 10 to 15 years.

But the Newsom administration will tell us how much worse the drought is.

[1FreeAmerican]

The term "Atmospheric River" has been used by local meteorologists for a long while. We used to call it the "Pineapple Connection". And yes I know it is not an official NWS term.

[fretzer]

>atmospheric river... just plain stupid and I will ignore anytime seen in the future...

It used to be called the “Pineapple Express” but that was before the weed variant by the same name.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

No, not “Pineapple Connection.”

Pineapple Express. That’s been used forever.

My dad used to use that when he visited us in CA from Pennsylvania. He and mom went to Hawaii a number of times after they retired and he would always stop by and use that term. He was a great, jovial guy and hearing him use “Pineapple Express” and “spritz of pineapple juice” (to describe a light rain shower) always cracked me up. I sure miss him, mom and those days.