E's Surf Report

first toast

Does anyone know why the parking lot @ sloat was closed this morning?

Because the waves sucked this morning.

The waves did not suck where I was...

nor I

Sometimes I wish Sloat was called something else besides Sloat. I hate saying Sloat. I hate thinking Sloat. What are some better names for that street that would be more fun to say?

i sucked where i was

How about pumpstation, or the Zoo.

how about OTP, for the nearby Oceanside Sewage Treatment Plant?

thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou....

to poseidon, neptune, las olas gods...

for the waves yesterday afternoon.
they were appreciated and SO STOKED me out.

BIG OL' HOOT!!

Thu Apr 13, 7:02 PM ET
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - San Francisco-area households are woefully unprepared for the "Big One," the catastrophic earthquake expected to strike the region one day, according to an American Red Cross survey released on Thursday.
10 million people would be affected
...Damage, displacement and death from the "Big One" could dwarf the suffering in 1906, Mary Lou Zoback, regional coordinator for the U.S. Geological Survey, told Reuters.

Certain areas lightly populated in 1906 but now heavily urbanized would be hit especially hard.

saw the news on Kron and they showed the sunset at the beach. looked fun.

heard it was fun last night. crap.

hey you newbs could call it ZooCom and then you could call yourselves locals and then you'd qualify for free dental coverage (extractions only).

there's a big write-up today in the chronicle regarding bonfires on the beach. so far most of the comments received regarding the ban have been against it. i guess people really enjoy stepping on nails and broken glass.

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Bonfire comments
People can submit comments to the National Park Service until May 31 on the proposed bonfire ban at Ocean Beach. To comment:

Call the comment line at (415) 561-4723.

Send an e-mail to

rudy_evenson@nps.gov

will the next big one hit before or after the tunnel is completed? ooohhh, think of the real estate implications/opportunities. would home prices revert back to '95-00 levels???? '90-'95 levels???? how low can it go? just wait it out. you'll all get your turn...if you're keen.

apparently that spot wasn't a secre this winter. I guess the fact that it only breaks a handful of times a year dun don't matter.

bonfires are one of the few things the feds didn't take from us after the GGNRA was formed. Screw the feds and their rules. If you have a problem with assholes leaving their trash, get off your ass, get some friends together and go down there and regulate. fer chrissake (it is good friday) do we have to teach you guys everything?

Sloat should be renamed:

poo beach on the incoming tide
stumps beach on a low tide
Linda Mar beach on the weekends

Slope street.Because it never barrels. The longboarders like that.
Have a nice shower.
Some-one put some porn on.I know it is good friday,but just one nice hoof.

rza, thanks for the link, we'll all be sure to call and let them know we are against the ban on bonfires.

ill so with 'stumps'

also for south of sloat 'cliffs'

so it is written and so it shall be done.

sloat = stumpy's toilet

the next big one is in no way going to lower housing prices. if a significant portion of the housing stock is damaged or eliminated, supply goes down, demand remains the same so prices skyrocket. the next "big one" (1906 magnitude) on the san andreas won't be for another 100 years - this is the one that will

people who own are sitting really pretty right now. and for the rest of us who didn't jump on the bullet train, Tracy, Oregon, New Mexico are looking like pretty good options

eliminate fires at the beach.

The solution to OB fires is easy: FIRE RINGS

It keeps everything in one place...no stepping on nails...easy for Rangers to patrol. and still allows everyone to have the fires on the beach. It works well in SoCal

This weekend is Joey Valera's birthday.
He is 60 years old! The guy with the green f-150 always parked in front of Wise's. KCLB.aka the Hawk.
60 years old and rips.Surfs and Kite-boards really well. Gives us all hope. He is a really nice guy .Say hi sometime and you will hear some great history of the beach.

Anon,

Earthquake prediction is not an exact science. We have no idea when the next quake might occur, or which fault will rupture. Seismologists deal in probabilities only (as in a 62% chance of a 6.7 or greater occuring before 2032)

Loma Prieta was in no way the Big One, and it didn't release built up stresses along the San Andreas fault since 1906. (In fact, it wasn't even the same fault)

The homes that survive the quake might appreciate in value, depending on how liveable the city is following the quake. The ones that are significantly damaged or destroyed (either by quake or fire) are a different story. Very few San Francisco homeowners have earthquake insurance(its unafforable), and most homes haven't been seismically retrofitted. Most of the Sunset district is built on sand dunes. These people will be left with no home, and in many cases a nice fat mortgage to pay off.

Fire Rings
Permitting System (like Point Reyes)
Enforcement

bro-out, you get me everytime with those earthlink links.

Seriously fucking Gavin Newsome, how novel is the idea of trash cans on the actual beach? fire rings? and a fuckin tracktor raking every once in a while. I know it ain't santa monica beach but enough people go to OB to realize that its a trahsy shit hole, maybe I should write my congressman or something.

i know english good

I got your Socal fire ring right here

Ft. Point......not today

the waves sucked yesterday afternoon, and I bet they still suck today. Just crappy mushburger that would reform on the inside and be one big crappy closeout.

isotope...today

postpiculate, nice.

Get Real,
Sorry, my boss approached mid-post and in my panic, I hit post instead of close my window. Wasn't able to finish my thoughts. I'm a little sensitive right now because for the last two weeks I've been atop the most "Spyware/Malwared "computer in the company.

Anyway, my point was that the San Andreas is not really primed for the next "big one" for about another 100 years. The return period on large quakes on that fault are about 250 years and there hasn't really been a lot of observed strain on the fault in the area nor any precursor tremblors. Earthquake prediction is probability based but once an event occurs, the probability of that event occuring again drop way down and rise again slowly over time. This is different then say hurricanes. The fact that Hurrican Katrina happened last year doesn't lower the probability of Katrina happening again this year. Same probability. But in 1907 the probability of a major earthquake on the San Andreas near SF was very small. And remains small today, 100 years later. But it will SIGNIFICANTLY rise over the next 100 years - then people in SF should start buying insurance.

The Hayward fault is a totally different animal. Hasn't ruptured since 1880? and there are scary signs of large strains building up along this fualt. This fault will rupture soon - and this is a lot of the 62% probability you speak of. And when it goes - the East Bay is probably pretty fucked. And of course this damage will spread out of the area into soft spots of SF and the South Bay, Loma Prieta-Marina type damage. Unless you live within a mile or two of the fault - hardly the "big one".

But to me - the East Bay is a foreign country. I don't ever want to live there. 880 traffic is where I will go when I go to hell. So I bias my view as a San Franciscan. Sure a lot of services (Water from Hetch-Hetchy, BART, Electricity, Food, Highways) come from the east but the SFPUC is working on seismically upgrading the water system, The new Bay Bridge is going up, so all in all, I feel pretty safe.

But when the East Bay goes to shit - structures of all types on the Peninsula will be in very, very high demand. Even though the city was a war zone post 1906, rents went through the roof. But if your house does fall of your foundation - the cost of your structure compared with the value of your land is pretty small - so with a little FEMA help and an equity line, you'll be able to rebild your dream house. I will neve shed a tear for an SF landowner, just for us poo old renters. We'll be kicked out before the shaking stops so our landlords can get a low interest loan and rebuild five story condo buildings (another story) they've always dreamed of and make a real killing.

My advice if you are a SF homeowner is to pop some of the bubbly tonight and realize how good you have it. Then go to Home Depot tomorrow, bolt your house to the foundation, and put up as much plywood on any exposed stud walls as you can. If your a renter? Go to the sports basement and pick yourself up a nice roomy tent and a Coleman camping stove, and get used to the idea of taking a crap in Golden Gate Park.

And vote for public infrastructure bonds whenever possible.

damn I need some surf.

Hah! all that pic needs is the pig pen effect to describe the poo smell @ Lindy this morning

this string is so much way better without that angry wannabe gay dude posting hate diatribes all the time

I got your hot diet tripes right here and dim sum.

Probably the most negative vibes I've ever felt out in the water this past week. Especially when you compliment someone on their surfing and/or wave and they just look away without acknowledging you. It happened to me twice this week. Also a bummer to hear the 12 year old kids at the skate park calling other kids faggots. And asking their friends "hey did I have any style on that ollie?" What a bummer.

try mailing back payment for those campground fees you skipped out on while traveling and things will improve.

That is a nice little pocket for my schnaz

non-native species...I'd better burn that to eliminate it and let the native plants back into the mix

Sacto, loved the hooters on the last one.

Oh I don't have to get used to taking a crap in Golden Gate Park. I'm already there, Bro. Them's some good 'craps!

Hey Obro, the largest quake in Cali history was in the 1857(four times as powerfull as the 1906).........followed shortly by 1906 quake. The 1989 quake was a baby compaired to both (1906 30 times more powerfull)

yabba dabba dooby

that last sactomex female shot is fantastic. Where is it from?

Had a good day today--got high and gardened all day. "Man of the earth in earth is laid."

It's a photo of Brooke Burke - super hotty hollywood model

regulate don't legislate:

Did you think for a moment before posting that photo? I guess the internet is a perfect venue for people who can't self-regulate.

fret not, the person who posted that is just your run of the mill turd on the strand

truthfully, it was a knee-jerk reaction to what I viewed as yet another attempt to southern californicate us. I almost didn't post it. and then I remembered I was on niceness, home of the duplicitous in need of constant regulation and hardly the arbiters of good taste. In my defense, the picture is from a medical text and is not of some woman whose sense of self worth comes from how attractive men find her but simply of some poor asshole.

However, if you were offended by the picture I apologize (pay attention ethan )

As for you fret not, I won't repost the picture but consider it my portrait of you.

I like to spend my time searching for pictures of assholes in medical texts on the internet and to post them on e's anonymously and write "this is a picture of YOU" to people I don't know. Then I really enjoy checking back late at night to see if anyone was offended by what I did.

I really enjoy being regulated... hard,,,and again and again.

"The Number One Surf Shop
for the Number One Country"

"Just (Look Good While You) Do It"

"We'll Be Really Friendly To You
No Matter How Big a Lamer You Are"

The only thing I hate more than surf shops is myself.

awww thats cute but this is far more exciting

that kid is so dead

actually, Scallan saves him, Truelove beats the orca to death with his bare hands and KCLB hibachis it up in the parking lot and use the teeth as poker chips in a high stakes game later that night.

and a niceness cunt points out others by name because he likes to hide under the covers.

stopped by mollusk once. nice guys. interesting boards. kind of a limited selection, but they seem to be trying to specialize in retro and experimental shapes.

got nothing nice to say about bob wise or his business, after years of experience with it.

sounds like he wasn't buying what you were selling. I wouldn't even buy as much as a bar of wax from any of the other shops.

easy there stallion, that might have gone over your head.

i love how the fucknut lamer who bridge trolls this blog like some weenie what a full homeless wannabee fag turd

quick, google a picture you ass wad!

you know what they say about homophobes don't you?

schultze must be feeling unloved right now.

poor surfboards made by poor americans
the only surfshop sanctioned by Car Bob

classical music is awesome. mozart was really talented.

Actually, those are GOOD surfboards made by poor Americans

Bought a vernor. Me like it so far.

Poor americans still live like kings, you ungrateful surfers!

You are NOT poor and you get to surf all the time.

Try being poor in Africa where you can not afford food to eat and go hungry.

So what you can't afford a house in the Marina. You suck!

Here's one templated off a G&S classic fish...

Surfboards made by poor americans

sacred heart = Andy with curly hair?

how much do those fish go for?

A fish sells for the annual salary of 2 african farm workers

enough with the shit, how's the surf?? anyone hit the SURF lately? I mean, fuck, this is a blog about surfing.

....or surfers. wider scope. less restrictive. expand your horizons. broaden your view.

Gerrrrr!

any real man would be streaking across the wave mid-face back in the critical section just under lip that is not yet wisping in the wind. of course where he is, is still plenty manly. your fanboy post isn't tho.

anyone surf italy? going for work in july and fly in/out of venice with a week to play. any recommendations on beach towns within 4 hours via train? thanks.

whatever ho-dad.

posts praising BVB will never be criticized.

go on, you know you want to spray some names. I dare you.

Hans, Lotte, Jane, Willi, Suki, Leo, Sacha, Britt
Adolf, Enrico Andre, Chiang Ching, Lin Tai Yu.

mildly witty, yet incorrect. only onions will save you now.

pray for onions.

CHAPLAIN:
Let us praise God. O Lord,...
CONGREGATION:
O Lord,...
CHAPLAIN:
...ooh, You are so big,...
CONGREGATION:
...ooh, You are so big,...
CHAPLAIN:
...so absolutely huge.
CONGREGATION:
...so absolutely huge.
CHAPLAIN:
Gosh, we're all really impressed down here, I can tell You.
CONGREGATION:
Gosh, we're all really impressed down here, I can tell You.
CHAPLAIN:
Forgive us, O Lord, for this, our dreadful toadying, and...
CONGREGATION:
And barefaced flattery.
CHAPLAIN:
But You are so strong and, well, just so super.
CONGREGATION:
Fantastic.
HUMPHREY:
Amen.
CONGREGATION:
Amen.

Come see us at SF Surf, we make you special price on the fish. Fish make you surf just like its 1978 again.

interesting comment on blogging and humanity:

http://opinionistas.com/

Props to 3:5:7 and I'm praying. Classic references.

Now do the bit about how being protestant means you can put con-dom on the end of your old john thomas any time you want...

fanboy noticer guy lives to call others "fanboy"

fuck shes hot!

Wise haters: I totally agree the staff can have attitude problems.Sitting in a store and hearing about everyone else going on trips would drive me crazy .But that shop does have a deep selection of product,and you pay the same as the bro-bra's because no one gets deals.We are lucky to have a variety of shops and no surf schools.

hi, my name is

I got my last board at Wise

my surf report:
nice day. glassy on the eastside, 2 to 5. smokin' j's, drinkin' brews- time to go skate. life is good this monday.

thats what I do. its a niche world.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=IdfWtqmZUt8&search=kelly%20slater

Kelly Slater in Campaign 2.

Absolulely unreal.

-Zoinks

that is truly sick footage.

sweet link - he's just ripping it all to shards.

whwwwhwhwwwhw Whistling tunes - we hide in the dunes by the seaside

It's a knockout...

he's good at surfing

third post!

Kelly? He wishes he was as good as me....and stuff....and...um....I actually taught him everything he knows. Yeah, that's the ticket!

its funny how it appears that many regular posters here will not post on an out of date thread. Yet E comes along and drops a new one, and suddenly its OK to chime in. sheep. be a blogging individualist and post regardless of the date. be a blogging non-conforming individualist and go back to post on random days in the past. be a blogging anarchist and punch the guy in the cube next to you as you spit on your screen. I chose to be a blogger do-good organizer and suggest ways to blog for better blogging effectivness. Perhaps you can be a blogging control freak and tell everyone what to post. Blogging is the new world order.

hey what do i do now that i punched my neighbor and spit on my computer?

blog baby blog

hey! i just posted a recipe for macaroni and cheese on a thread from 2 years ago! now what?

a true blogging individualist would never blog about his blogging feats. INVALID!!

oh, i thought we had a rhythm going.

I'm a lunatic what do you expect?

what a day!

Hi guys, sorry i havent posted lately. been busy DANCIN' like a real woman. Did you miss me?

Do you think one of you could fill my void? I love surfers!!

cheap tramps like you are dome a dozen.

dime

bells is on

She might be a dime a dozen Senor Costco but that post it 80x better then your 2 posts.

Parko just ripping.

quantity at a discount. not quality.

without 3to5setsof7 I would lanquish away without purpose.

how can you not be stoked to watch this stuff? it's brilliant!

parkos first wave got overscored.

Anyone having trouble connecting?

Call me a pro-ho if you will but it makes me happy to sit at work with my headphones on listening/watching the WCT events.

me too kaiser.
haven't you heard? according to KIX/PNW/fanboy critic, the new official ASL term to describe a enthusiast of professional surfing is "fanboy".
"pro-ho" is so "last year".

I like that tubesock full of knees, elbows and knuckles with the red clogs on

Slater, Rasta, Chob

Is harvest time coming soon? Is there a dry season out here when stuff does not grow?

Shit grows all the time MOFO. Some times of the year just happened to be better then others.

Its all relative in northern california.

I guess I am a "fanboy" then. I get paid pretty well to be one anyway....

why did the live feed, which is showing round 4, just post scores for a final? is this on delay?

alternate bells url?

enjoy yourselves, sports fans.

enjoy yourselves, sports fans.

Whoa now! Don't be bitting on my name there. You can post pictures of me but don't use my "handle". I say, "Get your own!"

The Real Kaiser

apparently you have a fanboy.