Posted on 06/27/2006 9:35:59 AM PDT by Ingtar
Thanks for the ping looks like all my folk's (Tx. and Fla.)will miss this one.
It didn't have the size admittedly I would say it was 4-7' but it was the thickest and hollowest I have ever seen it. It was an anomaly I think, a storm went up the coast a few days before I hit it and the water which is usually really shallow for a ways out had a steep drop off develop just out past the first sand bar and the waves would just jack up all of a sudden and then form a almost perfect A-Frame wedge and then break with the most hollow tubes I had seen in years, there was and I am not exaggerating no backs to these waves it was just one of those freak miracle days. It was winter 02' I believe. I some times surfed Hatteras Light and Kitty Hawk Pier as well but to me S-Turns is the best. I used to surf the first street jetty all the time in VA beach (because it was much closer) but the crowds and price gouging for parking during the summer just was not worth it (not to mention it was always 2-3' smaller then s-turns). I don't get to do much surfing now with living in Lubbock but I am only a days drive to corpus christi and s. padre island and only 1000 miles to socal and I like road trips so I can probably squeeze in a few sessions a year gas prices dependent.
What a fuster cluck of a night.....we did not leave for the Island until after 9 because as he left here in the motor home, it lost a hose clamp and he had to turn around, but the motorhome died in the intersection.........
I have never driven that causeway in the dark - it wasn't fun........especially when it started raining. fortunately I was nearly to the drawbridge at that point and the guys were behind me.
Abby - the southern end is fine. Residual water in potholes, but no other problems.
We shall see what happens tonight and tomorrow. It's raining pretty good now and has been for over an hour.
We gonna see you down this way in the near future?
We were actually asked to leave the Inn by one of the new "owners" because it was after 10 and Jax was with us. It didn't matter she was quietly in a corner playing a game and the off duty staff were talking with her, playing the game with her, and handing her more quarters to keep playing.
The guy's a dork, and thankfully, from what I've gathered he is only there at night, and very rarely at that. Now I understand why our favorite bartender, Tina, just up and left.......she was also the bar manager.
Did Bush Jets Influence Hurricane Katrina?
Spy satellite image allegedly showing Texas Air National Guard jets flying near the eyewall of Hurricane Katrina over the Gulf of Mexico.
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The photograph was e-mailed to us by a National Security Agency employee who provided the information on condition of anonymity. The employee's e-mail contained a claim that one of the nation's spy satellites was tasked to the Gulf region to help monitor and guide a squadron of Texas Air National Guard jets that were used to influence the movement and intensity of the hurricane.
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The worst of it seems to be over except for the folks who will be affected by the stream and river flooding. I'll be down sometime by Monday anyway. Have to learn to use a chain saw to cut up the two big limbs that came down first.
YIKES on the limbs.........
I would have given anything to see that..........
Just moved to North Carolina last night. Always fun for new weather to head my way. Maybe it was following me from Louisiana.
Three trees damaged at home over the weekend - to come down here to this ..... IF I make it until Friday hope to see you. Starting to wrinkle badly from so much rain :)
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