"At this time, no injuries are reported in Capitola, and we want to keep it that way!"
The Covid years of our lives are, mercifully, behind us. Dark days when humans wandered around very scared of each other’s germs. Distance and distrust codified into statues ruling every human interaction. Practicing not just caution but an “abundance of caution” the proper social flex.
The “abundance of caution” was liberally employed to cancel, or otherwise restrict, all manner of joy and fun. Parties, picnics, surf contests. Ruling like a power-starved dictator until the disease finally ran its course through the population and folk abandoned it for subway surfing.
Well, in a shock turn few saw coming, the “abundance of caution” is back. Days ago, northern California experienced a wild run of unruly swell. Quaint Capitola, near Santa Cruz, did not like the big surf, even though the sun was shining and the birds singing. It did not want surfers surfing in it nor spectators even watching it.
But what to do?
Dust off the old chestnut is what.
The local police department shuttered the beach and the city released the following statement over social media.
As of approximately noon on 3/1/25 Capitola PD, Central Fire, State Parks, and Harbor Patrol have responded to multiple serious water rescues off of the Capitola Beach. Out of an abundance of caution the Capitola Beach and Wharf are closed until approximately 4 pm due to high surf, crowd size, and fast moving debris as a potential danger to public safety. At this time, no injuries are reported in Capitola, and we want to keep it that way!
No reported injuries. An “abundance of caution” locking it all down to keep it that way.
Does it warm your heart to see the phrase return or does it give you PTSD?
I wonder how disgraced former World Surf League CEO Erik Logan feels?
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lolololol
What a joke! Yet watching Kirra point going off on YT and heaps of surfers in water enjoying the cyclone swell. Maybe that’s why there’s more world champions from GC then Socal.
I found a 5 hour feed from the hill above Kirra. Epic fun to watch the carnage and all the barrels
It was unreal, had it on at work. Hopefully going Wednesday.
ah, fact ,USA already spends twice as much money per capita on health care and ranks 38th in quality…..so twice as much money as other nations , and shit quality……that’s the reality of having a system where every level is private and makes profit……
Capitola has … let’s call it an “assertive” police department. Right across the street Santa Cruz has some of the worst crime rates for a city of its size anywhere in the United States. Capitola almost no crime. It’s like the Singapore of the California coast. They’re going to make some rules
I’ve never been there so looked it up on googly earth, and see that it just seems to be a small suburb of the greater Santa Cruz area.
Soooo, if it was pumping there (which judging by some other comments is unlikely), what’s stopping ya from jumping in at Pleasurable Point and floating eastward with the current into Capitola, then after some waves, floating further eastward with the current out of Capitola to the next suburb ?
Thereby riding waves in Capitola without ever standing foot on land there, and breaking no local ordinances.
An odd situation of names and apparent borders…
The thing is, Capitola is complete shit in terms of surfing. They basically have 1 shitty peak that is barely longboard worthy and a small piece of a very long beach that gets decent once every few years and not necessarily the part in front of Crapitola.
Seems more like on land crowd control than anything else.
if i recall correctly, some brave guy went down to check it out while cops were patroling the beach and decides to pass on the surf option and instead went to a sammie shop and simply watched the ‘action.’ forgot which meat was chosen. (Chas, Cardiff, Covid) Maybe a Wimpy Burger?
MAGA surfers please choose from one of the following options-
A. Biden’s Fault
B. Newsom’s Fault
C. DEI’ Fault
D. All of the above
E. You need treatment for your TDS
Hopefully the hospital accepts reddit karma
Reddit karma might be all that is available to a lot of Americans once Elon guts Medicaid
drudge actual current headline: ‘social security payments “face disruption”‘
Matt doesn’t work there anymore and the site’s complexion has drastically changed. The millions of readers seemed to have not noticed.
maga has definitely noticed, they are en masse unhappy with the ole drudge site. Do hope OG Matt is sipping mai tai’s on a beach somewhere and chuckling through his piles of benjamins — all that said, does still serve as a decent front page for what’s happening in the political world on any given day. At least as good as the alternatives, for my ancient money actually a bit better.
finding truth these days? akin to throwing darts and hitting a bull’s eye! the devil is in the details not discussed and am a lousy chess player. but know when i read ’bout checkers…the name of a prez’s dog and what the dog says…and the MSM screams, “Dat dawg is rascist, needs a haircut, a new leash, and should be deported…” (Daryl Hannah; currently Neil Young’s gf living at The Ranch.) allegedly~ALLEGEDLY!
…to those millions that are still cashing checks while already long, since dead. just got part A&B and the first SS check is in the mail!
and social security, since its apparently a Ponzi Scheme
but, but…they found $31 million in federal benefits paid out to dead people in a single year, so that clearly justifies withholding the other $1.6 trillion USD anticipated to be paid out in Social Security benefits to living Americans this year!
ALL HAIL KING ELON! Hurr-durr, me love DOGE!
https://apnews.com/article/social-security-biden-treasury-trump-doge-cc46365b82a32038123576502977dd26
I thought Zelensky was the new boogeyman??
We have always been at war with East Asia!
Xox
snake fish farms and green algae and seaweed and Melamia me oh My
why can’t any honest speaker say: “You’re an asshole~”
npr all o’ver her ride home…Connie Nielsen
You forgot Obama, it’s always Obama. Hasn’t he been running the cuntry for the past 16 years?
not to mention hillary/benghazi. benghazi was a contributing factor to the 2008 economic crash, after all.
I hate it when people bring politics into the discussion, and it’s totally unrelated to the article.
precisely what the MAGA cuck BG commentators did during the entire Biden Administration. payback’s a beach.
I don’t really hate it. No one here has had the same comment I just made made to them more.
Its like memes. Lefties just aren’t good at them. And Lefties are just straight up horrible at recognizing their own hypocrisy.
and the MAGA cucks are incapable of recognizing reality—whatever Trump says is the truth. Whatever Trump says is conservatism.
He seems like a bill clinton rerun. If anything.
well bill and dunny both were creatures of Epsteins follies.
I guess we will never know.
Board versus Sword!
Score…
Saw ‘Gladiator,’ R. Crowe…Romans 0, Crowd 2…win the crowd!
Tonight’s feast is Fuel TV and Dubai…The Emirates, princes, and a degrading, non-hard, lemonade fanatic-driven (fan) religion…
Skateboarding is in ‘in’ the Middle East, capitalism city/state, no residencies…
No routine coverage on local tv, cable tv, VS., or mtv…not ABC…
But back in the days of 6-feet of snow, we used to tear the steel wheels off of roller skates and nail them into a self-customized plywood board…
I went thru dozens of Buster Brown, leather-bottomed shoes…
Skateboarding down to Cos’s and Ian’s house and later ended up at the beach…MB (near LA)
Surfing, biking, skating…
Back to the skateboarding thing…
Middle East is (as the Demos say in the States ‘should be about CHANGE) without regard, really charging!!!
Aerial speed airplane shows, high rising buildings, and
World in changes, I don’t think so…somewhere there is WAR…
Skaters rule and succeed, while “no skating boarding” signs abound worldwide…
Haven’t slowed any of the Thru Caribbean crowd down (Fuel tv)…or WSL Puerto XXL mañana (8AM; World Surf league.COM)
And will not impede progress…
We have always been lovers of the board and the ball (bearings)…
________________________________________________________________________
And not afraid to take on the sword! Boards 10, Swords 8…Crowd wins!
From, and brought about by, the pioneering arts and sounds of the surfing BROS…
I was in the same room as russell crow yesterday
meg ryan claims he jiggled her left nipple?
was Meg moanin? ask Bill Crystal?
My wife was getting an operation but while waiting there were no beds, they told us R crowe was shooting something on another floor and was using the beds, i went up and caused a bit of a scene, cut, thats a wrap, bed obtained.
“win the crowd” and w/o a scuffle? did you show him your skateboard? bless Ms Hot Stuff, Chief!
chicken skin and no voice is speechless. is he homeless? free him. fuckin Gladiators. KFC & My PIllows present…silver coins~copper’s not needed.
blogo v blago…
Trump definitely represents conservatism
why don’t we take Mike Johnson’s 7 conservative principles and talk about how well Trump represents each?
Individual Freedom—Dobbs decision takes away womens’ right to choose in most red states. Bans trans military members.
Limited Goverment—appoints a non-elected South African to unilaterally decide the budgets of federal agencies, usurping congress and effectively creating a new administrative agency with unchecked power answerable to no one
The Rule of Law—ignores the rulings of Courts telling him he is acting unconstitutionally and openly attacks judges and their families on social media. Pardons hundreds of felons who stormed the Capitol on January 6th.
Peace Through Strength—bows down to Russia and is selling out Ukraine, Europe, and NATO to a nuclear peer
Fiscal Responsibility—2017 tax cuts for the rich remove billions in tax revenue that could have been used to pay down the deficit
Free Markets—25% tarrifs on Mexico and Canada.
Human Dignity—Ridicules POWs and people with physical disabilies. Calls veterans “chumps.” Removes security details on people his own supporters have made death threats to.
https://mikejohnson.house.gov/7-core-principles-of-conservatism/
Alright, that’s a long post so forgive me for piecemealing my response.
Dobbs- Returned power to States. That where it belongs. Even Ginsberg agreed with that determination.
Trans Ban: the correct decision. For one, a mentally ill person given a weapon and training to use that weapon is such a bad idea, it’s almost immeasurable how bad it can be. Two, most of these mentally ill volunteers were doing it for free, government sponsored transition surgery. With recovery and over one year long hormone replacement or whatever, they’re not useful in any manner. Period. That doesn’t mean men get periods.
Musk: thousands upon thousands of unelected bureaucrats. He’s the most transparent advisor this country has seen since probably forever. Trump runs the Executive Branch. Not DoGE. Advisory role only. Trump is the one cutting costs. Musk to only point out where he should look.
More later
break down the firewall to owning Huntington Beach…sirens, firewall. fish tacos?
Don’t ever travel to surf Otto. The whole world hates the USA now because of dickheads like trump. It’s the first question I get when traveling. What do you think of trump? Spoiler. They all hate him. Bet you would cower behind your actual beliefs while on the road when a nice person you just met asks you that question.
Whole Europe aint the whole world
central and South America hate him as well. Australians mostly just think he’s stupid which is also true. Thats most of the world with good waves right there. So like I said before, don’t travel to surf. Stay at home on whatever shit peak you inhabit. Be it east coast with its month long flat spells or west coast with its maddening crowds and kooks.
Thats a heluva survey!!
correction beluga. white caviar~
no but it is the cultural center of our current civilization!
Was
and replacing Europe…we have Russia/USA…..China?
Do you think (oops) Duttons condemnation of Trumps position on Ukraine ……is justified?
You vote for the least worst.
Your whole premise is that a “nice person” is incapable of accepting the mere sound of the views of someone who disagrees with their world view and what that person believes should be important for that person’s own Country.
You believe in your “nice person” heart that over half the people in this Country are not nice people. That is weapons grade absurdity.
I have zero filter, when I’m home, or abroad on a surf trip, or trip of any nature. Never had anyone confront me about my support for America and Trump. Not once.
Nah I just know from my time in central and South America they don’t like trump at all because he’s a douchebag. And they feel the same way about his supporters. Trump isn’t welcoming to anyone who isn’t white and his speech reflects that. And these nice people I’m referring to would still be nice to your face but then they would talk shit about you in Spanish which you wouldn’t understand. Don’t believe me? I welcome you to wear your maga hat in Mexico.
Every single Brazilian I’ve met on the north shore loves Trump. They all hate Lulu the Socialist
Well, maybe you shouldn’t spend so much time at Yoga/Surf retreats in Central/South America, and actually get beyond the maps placed at in your retreat suite.
I played a cd of the concert for New York for 911 in the camp at g land in sept 2002. When the crowd was chanting USA USA the other surfers frowned at me.
Except of course for delightful Israel, Russia and North Korea where MAGA lovers can revel in crappy waves with like minded souls
Actually that Kamchatka peninsula looks like it’s got some amazing waves but you risk being sent to a Siberian prison for carrying an American passport. And North Korea also seems to have some fun looking setups as well but again you’d likely be detained indefinitely and used as a political pawn. Israel looks to have some shit waves and the traveling Israeli surfers I’ve met are complete shit head kooks so i guarantee the surf scene sucks.
Haha, Ja perhaps Kamchatka but the icy water and fickle conditions are definitely a major bummer. Regardless coming from South Africa all three are miles away from ever getting onto my bucket list.
otto, serious question again…..do you agree with the USA/MAGA becoming an ally, or less, with Russia??
I am honestly interested to know yours and Happy campers position on the USA/Trump position that Russia is more important than the rest of the Western world?
Russia is much closer to USA than germany,
hahha……OK there’s one western country…….do you think Russia will want Alaska back……LOL?
Its their 3rd closest neighbour.
and ?
You know Russia isnt one guy. Right?
really putins not a dicatator…….??
Who are the others……oh it’s a democracy?
There are many dictators. And we trade with them.
in Russia???
All over the world
we talking about Russia…??
its government certainly is
Germany is getting ready to begin purchasing energy from Russia again.
Of course
You want again?
Otto
Brutus
18 hours ago
Sure. First, dismiss your conclusion that there is an alliance between USA/Russia. Second, accept the fact that peace means concessions from both sides. Third, peace negotiations require the good guy talk to the bad guy, and that doesn’t mean the good guy is seeking an alliance. Fourth, a mineral deal between USA/Ukraine means Russia will not advance on not only an American interest, but a limited physical presence protecting that interest. Fifth, Russia has the world’s largest nuclear arsenal
the USA turned off it’s cyber security , as Russia is no threat to the USA’s security?
It’s pretty obvious that Europe is now reorganizing itself to deal with Russia without the USA!
So who’s the good guys and bad guys?
peace negotiations, ah, without the country at stake…hmm plus trumpy says that Ukraine started the war….and $350 b was spent by USA was not it now looks like $120 b…..it’s amazing sitting on the outside looking at the USA’s new policy’s, which seemed to be based on it’s own misinformation?
yep Russia has 10% more nuclear weapons than the USA…..and ?
All I know is the cost of living for all of us is about to skyrocket , which will not affect the new deep state trump has created with Elon!
co-op mining ops and accepting bids from qualifed and vetted for Democratic. Unearthed minerals deposit arranged from split, of the former Yugoslavia as proposed:
USSR 25%
USA 26%
NATO – 3 % of GDP – (Soros + Schiff)
stabilaztion of the Palisades Hillsides (1%)
restoration of old monuments such as Napoleum, Lincoln and a
250 $ bill with the prez’s name on it…
Paid for it by not printin pennies at billions of $ per year.
Norway 26% to keep EV charging the US Fleet…
(Denmark)Greenlander’s 27%…(This Phase I report does not neccesaily represent actual facts and is not a reflection on an entire audience or the blog authors and unpaid employees…)
1% gofundusonepercenters…
Yeah you got the memes, but we have John Stewart, GOAT comedy editorializer. Best you guys get is Gutfeld, fucking embarrassing wet fart in comparison
Yell a headline, make a weird face, amazing!!
Oh man, that clip of Stewart slashing his own hand while doing performative grievance in the form of smashing his coffee mug on the table was funny. Don’t tell me you didn’t laugh when he cut his own hand. I laughed hard
co-writers on strike…soon~
too many commercials…
musicians…
WICKED~
I didnt think it affected you that much.
goin start fasting and meditating in leiu of rabbitdong as is promoted by MTV.
20 minutes after ooohhhmm?
I want my MTV~
Most I have fasted is 2 days. That third morning I thought I’d never be able to get up off the floor after stretching in the morning. Seriously.
Resets many aspects of your immune system. Healthy but you’ll feel it for sure.
I’m converting you. I knew it.
I’ll get you believing in the 4-stage cutback in no time.
Many a kook breathing a sigh of relief now that they can use the excuse “Yeah I was totally gonna paddle out and shred, but they closed the beach.”
I’m guessing you have never been to Crapitola.
keep droppin names and we’ll keep deletin ’em you angry activst’s grupa’s
GROUPIANs…
We sell centered balasts and rotary main sales
and auction off short mammaries…
Kommifornia!
In other news, Josh Pomer has a 24/7 stream on YouTube called “Surfing Nostalgia from the 1990’s” and it’s perfect to have on in the background while wasting time at work.
Thanks for the update Pomer.
How life been treating you George?
As of today show, Pedro has no longer buggerin my recycle can….