Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:48 PM 3/13/02 -0800, Jim Brick wrote: >Every year, tourists and other ocean neophytes lose their life along our >California coast. I cannot tell you how many people I have warned, over the >years. Families with kids, on the open coast, not watching the waves. They >come in sets and rogue waves are a fact, not fiction, and are more >prevalent than people think. They are usually responsible for folks being >washed off the shore, never to be seen again. Sometimes all of the kids, or >whole families. > AND that Pacific Ocean is mighty cold! Folks used to the much more clement Atlantic often misjudge just how chilly the water is on the Left Coast and end up hypothermic. I finished High School when my parents lived in Marin County. I got caught more than once by rogue waves -- but, then, I was a teen-ager and impervrious ... Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +276/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html