Surf is bashing the lights out of Florida right now! Are you there? Safe? Barreled?
Much talk about the surf industry apocalypse over the last few days. Buzzes! Whispers! Rumors! Mass sackings! Mid-tiered pros openly weeping in the streets! But then, sun through the clouds! Maybe Volcom, along with most other surf brands, were simply clearing cap space to purchase the services of Noa Deane.
He looks like a baby angel! Like he was birthed from Michelangelo’s brush! He most certainly could not harken the end.
Could he?
In any case, Hurricane Matthew hit Florida yesterday/today and made lots of good waves but also created/is creating havoc, destruction, death.
Do you think that humanity will basically end because sea level rise, global warming, giant uncontrollable storms or are you still of a mind that nuclear holocaust will be our finito? Could “Armageddon” actually be Biblical shorthand for “hurricane?” I supposed it would be Biblical longhand.
Hmmmm.
Have you ever surfed a hurricane swell? Lots of folk around the greater Miami did yesterday and it looked very fun as evidenced by Michael Dunphy’s nugget (above).
I’ve surfed one, once, in New York. It was very fun too. I was with What Youth‘s Scott Chenoweth. Scott? Are you there? That was a hurricane swell right?
Maybe that is why Kelly was so distracted and lost – he was filthy at missing the swell in Florida
Or nah???
Isn’t every swell of significance created by a low pressure system, regardless of what it’s called? Typhoon, hurricanes, Nor’easter, et al, are just brothers from different mothers, no?
Gulf coast surfer here. We’re not getting anything from this storm, but we live for hurricane swells. It puts one in a strange predicament: rooting for a storm to grow and linger and then hit the right spot, while the entire time saying “i hope no one gets hurt.” Then, on top of that, you know one day it will come for you. When it does you go to the clean side and hope you have a home to come back to.
So this is, really, what I was wondering and didn’t articulate well. Does it make you feel very schizo? What if you got absolutely pumping surf but your house got flattened, though no one in family hurt. Would you be happy, sad or other?
To a degree. I’ll take the 1-2 days of waves, but I’m in no hurry to go through another recovery. The last time it hit I lost some stuff, but still had a house. Between dealing with insurance, getting back to the house, finding a new place for my grandmother with dementia, helping/consoling friends and family who lost everything, and cleaning up I’d just as soon take another day of sloppy wind swell.
Chas, completely different topic – is it true that Pottz was the only ASP/WSL pro surfer, current or former, to attend David ‘Woody’ Woods’ funeral last week?