And this is what happens when beaches are closed and surfers are not allowed to surf.
If it’s not Coronavirus then it’s Great White sharks preparing a buffet feast of North Carolina’s genteel residents and if it’s not that then it is over one-hundred rental cars set ablaze at a southern Florida airport very near to localized surf spots.
Heavily localized with locals far too scary to pique, surfing west coast Florida waves far too epic to post but… here’s a sneaky picture.
In any case, per reporting from The Weather Channel:
A brush fire burned at least 100 cars at an airport in southwest Florida Friday, spewing plumes of black smoke that could be seen up to 20 miles away.
Officials said the cause of the fire wasn’t known, but the blaze was likely fueled by dry conditions and record heat.
The fire happened in an overflow parking area for rental cars at Southwest Florida International Airport near Fort Myers, in Lee County. The county and much of the Florida peninsula are experiencing moderate drought conditions, according to the United States Drought Monitor.
Some 59 wildfires were active across the state as of Saturday morning, and every county in the state was at either moderate or high risk for fire, according to the Florida Forest Service.
October through May is Florida’s normal dry season, but this year is drier than usual due to low rainfall and record-high temperatures.
The Florida Fire Service said the fire was 95% contained Friday night but crews would remain on the scene Saturday.
The Weather Channel is to be as trusted as much as your local weatherman unless your local weatherman is Brick Tamland.
Surfers know who burns rental cars.
Especially surfers who have been to Oahu’s North Shore.
Other surfers.
Very adjacent to the well-known aphorism “Guns don’t kill people, other surfers do.”
Wildly possessive surf locals.
Usually the answer to any ocean-adjacent trouble and especially in the Time of Coronavirus where beaches are locked, epic waves gone unridden and blow-ins still, still, daring to rent cars.
Don’t agree?
The Bay Boys will set you straight.
And/Or the timely epic about cars burning in a far off land.
More as the story develops.
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1) You cannot surf here in Southwest Florida unless a tropical storm or hurricane is in the process of coming, destroying shit or leaving.
2) 3,516 cars burned. Not just “100+”. Owned by multiple companies and caused by a dumbass decision to Park hot cars on dead, dry grass in 90 degree heat during our dry season. No crazy, renegade surfers were involved since they do not exist here.
I don’t think that fire was cause by dry heat conditions. Looks like …..
My money is on someone who had a lighter or possibly matches.
Ar we sure it’s not insurance fraud with surfers getting paid to be the pigeons to do the dirty work,.
Is that you Donald?
Good point
FLIRA…
I don’t see that any reputable news outlets are blaming surfers for this. If Beach Grit are pushing click bait to associate surfers with this sort of thing then it’s shameful especially during such an emotionally charged time as this. Crap journalism.
Inertia much?
That’s cuz Beach Grit is the ONLY truly fair and balanced news source there is! All the others are owned by Illuminati and Q Government and all that other conspiracy stuff. The other reputable news outlets are pulling the wool over your eyes, Mr. Sheep Man!!!! Can’t you see the truth that Chas Smith is enlightening us to. He was a God dammed war correspondent for a week or so at one point in his life! He surfs with sharks! He went to Beirut for Christ sakes!!! And he’s not one to stretch the truth just for clickbait potential.
Ha ha. I like your style sir. Of course how dare I suggest Beach Grit goes all in for click bait 🙂
Brilliant.
Lol you cant surf on the west coast of Florida unless we have a hurricane or strong winter storm. More fake news.
Aha! Publicly denying the existence of waves is the 2nd most popular form of anonymous localism – #1, of course, being vandalising cars. I think we’ve found our culprit.
Apparently you failed reading and comprehension in school regarding my comment. Re read. try again you can do it. I would love too see your ride a narly wave at Fort Myers beach. I’ll bring the boards and my go pro to record you riding a tastey wave. This will be an epic event.
Holy shit, it’s almost as though the fun police have not just banned surfing, hookers and casual sex, they’ve also taken away people’s ability to understand humour. Fuck these fucking draconian pandemic laws.
Also, because you questioned my reading and comprehension:
*Reread*, or *Re-read*
*Try again; you can do it*
*to*
*see you*
*gnarly*
*Fort Myers Beach*
*GoPro*
*tasty*
Additionally, we never had any subjects about reading or comprehension that gave any regard to your comment, so your entire presupposition that I could have failed such a subject is erroneous.
(Down-voting myself for being a grammar Nazi, but fucken hell was it needed).
Dry?
Then why did it rain EVERY FUCKING DAY while I was there Christmas week?
Do you people know what it”s like to be trapped inside with my mother-in-law???
I think your mother-in-law reads beach grit and she down voted you. Who else would for this comment. Either that or it’s somebody who doesn’t like rain?
Maybe someone here fancies their mother-in-law? Or maybe it’s Chas’ mother-in-law who seems pretty pissed at him for absconding with her grandchild to a Corona Wasteland. Either way…someone (or everyone?) doesn’t find my comment funny.
Very interesting read on how fucked the US potentially is from the ‘rus: https://medium.com/@tomaspu…
TL/DR: very, very fucked.
Feat. interesting data analysis of how spring breakers have exported the rus from Florida back across the country.
Let’s hear your thoughts!
I’m thinking hand guns and ammo..
Not just handguns at Rancho SSD!
Range mark the homestead?
Its pretty well defined. Have you got yours on lock? I do hope we can get through this without martial law. Stay safe, brother, all the best to you and family!
Ranged. Sighted. True.
That reminds me, the .30-06 scope needs to be zeroed. Might have to do that tomorrow. My dogs won’t be happy
You’re dogs WILL be happy!
That includes me Brother. Life’s Rough!!! Be Rough!!!
Yeah, i am packing a 9mm ruger. I am following the stay at home order. I only leave the house toget food. I went to the Publix and a Mexican came around the corner with a Bandana on his head. I instinctively thought it was trouble and went right to my gun. Sure is crazy times.
hope you shot him!!
What would you do if you saw a shark?
A land shark, loan shark or real shark – ive seen sharks surfing multiple times – so either ignored them or paddled in plenty around here
Kill it for food
I read it all. Thanks, sa !
I thought it was very well put together.
The graphs and numbers can always be attacked as supporting his argument but that is the most comprehensive report that any of us are ever likely to read.
Man, I hope you guys over there in the US are going to be ok – bcoz if he’s right it could be tragic. Even if he’s quarter-right ….. would still be a massive disaster.
Good find! I prefer to not consider us all fucked. Part of this is a mental battle. Stressing the fuck out is bad for your health as it is. He’s right about there being 1-3x as many cases than on the stats. Probably more. IMO, it’s been here since early Jan or its been the worst flu season ever that was a flu that didnt test positive for flu. Starting early Jan, it seemed like everyone I know was getting sick. Friends, customers, family, 2 of my daughters, the youngest (18) was the most sick she has ever been. Missed a week of school, house rattling cough, debilitating body aches, headache, eyes runny. 3 trips to dr and no sign of flu. It was gnarly, she said she felt like she was dying. I ended up with it too. All the people I know personally, at least a dozen, that had it, all had similar symptoms. All anecdotal but I think there is something to it. I also think Washington state has had it since November based on what Ive heard from cats up there Ive talked to. It was the first outbreak state and is probably the first stop for most Chinese people coming over here.
New York is getting hit hardest, could be the fact that they are crammed in there and all use public transportation. Additionally, they are all cooped up indoors for the winter in older buildings that are toxic so they have weakened immune systems.
As for travel bans, Trump caught heat for wanting to stop Chinese folks. Racist, they said and xenophobic. We also had the impeachment going on when we should’ve been preparing for the rona instead of.
Disclaimer: Im open for discussion, but if anyone is looking for an argument over semantics or politics, I will not go down that road.
Peace, love and well being to all!
Forgot to add-
Stopping the outbreak is obviously task one, along with balancing the economic situation but personal freedom and liberty are being left out of the equation in the article. We’ve been data mined, surveilled by the NSA,and given up a lot of privacy the last 20 years. This one has people being asked to snitch on one another, there’s talk of medical ID implants and forced vaccinations among other Orwellian nightmare scenarios. There’s a huge portion of skeptical Americans that don’t trust what the media and government are telling us and see it as a possible last stand against whatever freedoms we still have. A dystopian, technocratic, nanny state future is not a worthwhile trade off for me.
Exactly. As @@surfads (Disqus) alleged, fucked. #MAGA
You may be on to something, I’m about an hour east of Chicago and while I haven’t been sick I personally know several people who claim they already had this virus starting in early to mid December and lasting close to a month. One of them and his sick family drove to the VA hospital in Indianapolis and they tested him with no for sure conclusion and no treatment. They always ate at the chinese buffet.
Damn. I sure hope it’s the case so the New York scenario doesn’t play out across the country! If it’s not corona, then there’s another horrible bug. With how sick it made people, it surely took out a fair amount of unfortunate souls.
That’s good. Me on the other hand, I LOVE to go down, but on my gurl, not down the road of political discussion and debate. But I do love my guns. Bless their cold steel hearts.
Mmmm to both!
I don’t know anybody who thought stopping their travel here was racist, it was Trump calling Covid19 the China flu or the Wuhan flu that did that, it’s also what the Chinese were pissing about. They should’ve told us when they found out so many had died but Trump loves throwing middles school names and insults around. The knocks our status as a premier Country down when our President acts like a punk wanna be.
I guess you didn’t read my whole comment
plenty interesting perspectives if you can sift through the shit being thrown around. you can really get lost down the rabbit hole once you start.
I have been wondering how social distancing will impact mortality rates in general? reduction in accidental deaths? increase in suicide? do mortality rates of heart disease and cancer rates increase because of reduced access to medical facilities? does it all work out with no real difference in total numbers when its all done?
Unbelievable isn’t it? I mean unbelievable as in it’s not like this just snuck up on them. I have a mate who’s a medical biologist in Belgium. He started stocking up on supplies and masks at the beginning of Feb, told me to do the same. Surely after seeing what happened in Italy and Spain they’d have been wanting to act?
Brick won’t know who was responsible. We need to set Brian on the task. 70% of the time it works 100% of the time.