November Storm 09

Here are some pictures of the first real storm of the Fall here in Seaside.

For those of you who have been to our house and to put this in perspective, the post you see in this picture is about 200 to 300 yards from the water line where we normally put our stuff when we go to the beach. Right now the water line is behind this post and the foam you see is as far from green as it can get. It’s brown. (where ever do they get sea foam green from? Because the only sea foam I see is brown). Timmy said to tell you hayyelled here on Thursday night(use a southern accent here, he has one you know) it started around 11:00pm and was really cool like whiteout conditions and Friday night it hit around 11:00 pm and also again at 1:30am We have had heavy rains, high winds, really cool high seas, hail and thunder and lighting that seems to last for hours. (Thunder and lighting are things we don’t normally have here in Seaside but usually hit in the mountains around Svensen which is about 30 to 40 miles North of us.)

The other pictures you see are of the road we usually take to drive on the beach, yes they allow that here and we do take advantage of it when we feel the need to drive on sand instead of pavement. I was taking these pictures and was using the zoom lens thinking how cool are these waves and how cool are they up close in this lens, when I took the camera away and realized that they weren’t that far away from me in fact they were less than 5feet away from me and the foam I saw was really super close to me. I took a few more pictures and got back in the van to hear Timmy telling me to “back up mommy the waves are coming to get us, hurry up mommy back up” I backed up and we left with the waves following us. How cool is that! The surge of the surf is so impressive that I really don’t have any words for it.

You almost have to be here to understand the power of the ocean and how impressive these storms can be. The best I can do to describe it is WOW!!!!!!!! Hope you enjoy these pictures.