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Topic: Surf's Up Dude! (Read 2098 times)
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SnotBag
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Surfer Arrested Off Shore Of Galveston As Rita ApproachesA surfer off the shore of Galveston, Texas, was arrested Friday for not adhering to evacuation orders and surfing the large waves created by an approaching Hurricane Rita, according to a Local 6 News report. The man, who was not identified, was taken into custody by police after coming out of the surf. Police said he was apparently not taking Rita serously, attempting to surf off the shore of Galveston. Mandatory evacuations have been in effect along the Texas and Louisiana coast. Friday, Rita remained a Category 4 storm, aiming its 135-mph winds at the Beaumont and Port Arthur area about 75 miles east of Houston. "We are thinking 3 or 4 a.m. tomorrow," Mowry said. "It may be a Category 5 in the next 12 to 24 hours and then weaken before it makes landfall." Rita is expected to bring a storm surge of 15 to 20 feet. Rita is the 17th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, making this the fourth-busiest season since record-keeping started in 1851. The record is 21 tropical storms in 1933. Six hurricanes have hit Florida in the last 13 months. The hurricane season started June 1 and ends Nov. 30. 
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Soln
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the opportunity for evil is just delicious
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he was a fattie too
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WayAbvPar
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Why not just let natural selection take its course? Or maybe find out his name and see if you can get a life insurance policy on his dumb ass...
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When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
Always wear clean underwear because you never know when a Tory Government is going to fuck you.- Ironwood
Libertarians make fun of everyone because they can't see beyond the event horizons of their own assholes Surlyboi
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HaemishM
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the Confederate flag underneath the stone in my class ring
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Never fails. Some motherfucker's always got to try to iceskate uphill.
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Pococurante
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Hey, if Snake can do it... 
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Margalis
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Life imitates Point Break.
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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TheWalrus
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Coughescapefromlacough
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vanilla folders - MediumHigh
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Mr_PeaCH
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As a surfer, the way the media always takes time out to showcase one or two of these dudes always cracks me up. In this case, the guy was surfing mere hours before landfall... yeah, the surf was big but so was all the wind; conditions were frankly horrible. One has to wonder how bad a typical day in Galveston is to want to get out in crap like that. Regardless, "hurricane surf" is often very, very good; but what the surfers really want is for the storm to be moving towards them but still be a long way off. To have the winds sort of focused on a path (or 'fetch') towards them for a few days but then have the storm veer off some other direction leaving the swells generated by the storm marching their merry way to the beach. This sort of thing happens several times a year typically along the east coast. It's a little more dodgy on the west coast (and the hurricanes never make it up to So Cal; water is too cold) but we'll monitor every little depression that spins off of Mexico in the hopes that they will clear the Baja penninsula, grow stronger while still in warm water and tack northward for a couple days. Then we all call in sick to work.
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COME ON YOU SPURS!
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Pococurante
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It's all fun and games until the Undertoad makes an appearance.
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Soln
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the opportunity for evil is just delicious
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WayAbvPar
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Why do people EVER go into the water in Australia? It is just teeming with shit that wants to kill you.
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When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
Always wear clean underwear because you never know when a Tory Government is going to fuck you.- Ironwood
Libertarians make fun of everyone because they can't see beyond the event horizons of their own assholes Surlyboi
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Pococurante
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Hell if I were that sensitive I'd never go to work... 'ware the office political shark.
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Roac
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Why do people EVER go into the water in Australia? It is just teeming with shit that wants to kill you.
It's not just the water. There are crawlies on land that are just as nasty. While I find Australia extremely cool, it is just not fit for Human habitation.
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-Roac King of Ravens
"Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us." -SC
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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Hell if I were that sensitive I'd never go to work... 'ware the office political shark.

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