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Hurricane Sandy

A survey of chaos and perfection on the East Coast

By SURFER

| posted on October 31, 2012

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June 15, 2013 11:52 am

I’m not that much of a internet reader to be honest but your sites really nice,
keep it up! I’ll go ahead and bookmark your website to come back in the future. Many thanks

Tim Chipperfield
November 7, 2012 5:41 pm

This should have been called the “Waves of Florida”. We had HUGE surf in Rhode Island but you wouldn’t have known it from this article.

Jeffrey Caldwell
November 1, 2012 11:30 pm

Great photo spread of the waves/surf of Sandy. If you haven’t noticed though, the entire surf community in this region from Ocean Beach, Maryland up past Long Island is not just “in chaos” but has been decimated

Here’s a before/after of the Rockaway Beach, NY for one example: http://instagram.com/p/RbIJzWLPd5/ It’s just as bad and worse all over this region.

Right now people at our beaches have died, people are in shock, still recovering from losing everything, and a vibrant surf community/culture (just like your beach towns) that extends 300+miles up and down our cost is in tatters.

We’re gonna need all the support we can get to rebuild. Please try to bring attention to this one story with a focus that is a bit beyond the swell event.

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Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One Before

They say if you walk in like you own the place, then you’re halfway to where you’re going. Well, Kelly announced his arrival at Cloudbreak this morning by burning some hot laps on his jet ski through the lineup, shooting follow-footage of local surfer Aca Lalabalavu who was heavily piped at the time. Kelly dismounts and paddles straight out for his quarter against Seabass, and that’s when things really start to burn. John John, still dripping wet, catches Kelly’s first perfect 10 and comments, “I don’t know, but from here it kinda looked like a 20.” John John didn’t know how prophetic he was being, because it’s only a matter of minutes later that Kelly draws another wall of Pacific toward him. It’s bigger, foamier and throatier than the first, and tail of his 5’10” quad is doing it’s best to skip out from under him. CJ offers, “Man, that thing was a bull ride!”…and it was another 10. That’s your perfect heat, right there folks, the fifth in pro surfing and Kelly’s second. History made before 10am. The signs for the rest of the day are there early. When Kelly comes in and starts talking about the significance of the feat, he adds the caveat that, “Man, the way the waves are out there today, someone could go real close to getting another one.” And when he says someone, well, you probably know who he means.

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