'We usually don’t rescue surfers. It’s usually people who go out in the water for the first time... That’s just how aggressive the waves were.'
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After making sure his family, pets and property were safe, he climbed up the roof with a pair of binoculars in hand and observed the coastline. But that didn’t mean the dangers weren’t present. Despite the size of the waves — which reached peak heights of one to two feet in San Francisco, according to the National Weather Service, while flooding parts of Pacifica and Santa Cruz, even causing Soquel Creek to“What’s actually occurring is surges of water with lots of force,” he said. “We don’t see what’s underneath it, which is an extremely long rip current.
“But due to the emergence of the tsunami we felt it necessary to have a visual presence,” he said. “We’re all humans. Some of us think, ‘I want to go to the beach and see what’s going on there.’ At the end of the day, some people make good decisions, some make bad ones. It’s our job not to judge but to mitigate injury.”
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