Hurricane Earl would be driving the surf for a few days to come, followed by tropical storms Fiona and Gaston.
Pounding surf, driving winds, and a potent storm surge transformed the marshes by picking apart mats of dead grass, stirring up and disbursing soft underlying sediments, scouring several new channels, and depositing leftover sediment and debris in new areas.
To me, he was a million things besides that: a repair man and a gardener, a cheerleader, a soccer coach, a travel guide, a surf coach, a driving instructor, a golfer, a singer, a photographer, a sailor, a teacher, and most of all, my dad.
But Prasad knows that drivers simply can't (or shouldn't) surf the Web when driving a 3,500-pound 3,500-poundtal.
Navarro is a hyrbid of sorts; as half surfer, half explorer, his driving goal seems to be to surf where no one else has.
"I started driving out to the spots I'd surfed as a kid and filming all the new surfers there," Mr. Beattie recalled last month at Gilgo Beach, one of Long Island's best-known surf beaches.
An Ocean Beach denizen known as Sloat Bill had recently moved back to San Francisco after a stint in San Diego, declaring, "Surfing down there was like driving on the freeway.
I headed south, driving slowly, so that I could watch the surf.
The town will also be putting no-parking signs on one of the roads where Surf Lodge customers, who have been driving more than an hour to the hotspot, have been choking traffic, Ms. Prince said.
I thought about driving down to the ocean to see what the surf looked like under the pressure of the storm.
