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Post by Jason on Sept 1, 2010 0:01:28 GMT -5
Wow! 160 mph winds is above average for a hurricane, if I'm not mistaken! Glad you got to see Tears For Fears, too. 25 years of waiting?!! That's like me wanting to see The Doors.  Hopefully you get to see them rock the house, again. I'm sure they performed well! If you get to experience the inside of the hurricane, I will be so jealous. |
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Post by Man in Black on Sept 1, 2010 7:10:24 GMT -5
It is now down to a Cat 3... which is still as powerful as Katrina. It's supposed to go north of us... but I am really looking forward to seeing the ocean all mad and stuff.
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Post by Jason on Sept 1, 2010 23:14:23 GMT -5
Pissed off oceans will put me a bit on the uneasy side...... I can't swim. |
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Post by Man in Black on Sept 17, 2010 15:33:46 GMT -5
I have extensive lifeguard training and I WILL NOT swim in the ocean. Especially not the Atlantic off the Carolina coast. The waves are not as high usually as the Pacific, but the reason is that the water is so turbulent that the waves go everywhere - sideways, backwards and slam into each other. It's right on the gulf stream and they call it the Graveyard of the Atlantic. We had a blast at Myrtle Beach. We got no rain from Earl and the wind never got above 20mph. But the surf was outstanding. I took so many pictures it was ridiculous. I have never had as much trouble standing up in water in my life. The lifeguards were not letting anyone go in above the waist and I'm sure they saved several lives because of that. I held David's hand and let him jump waves at about my knee level and the undertow was incredible. Wave heights were maxing somewhere around 15 feet on the beach but the WC said they were much higher off the coast and you could see some towering out in the distance. Here is one of the best surf pictures I've ever taken. I'm still learning the best angles and stuff... and trying not get salt and sand in my camera. |
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Post by Jason on Sept 17, 2010 17:15:12 GMT -5
That picture is freakin' awesome. Looks like a direct screen shot of a movie!
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Post by Man in Black on Sept 18, 2010 20:15:56 GMT -5
Thanks J... I've got some more I'll share when I get them sorted. I took over 1000 pics on that trip and I haven't even got a chance to look at some of them, so I'm hoping there are some more like that.
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Post by Jason on Sept 19, 2010 19:43:33 GMT -5
Thanks J... I've got some more I'll share when I get them sorted. I took over 1000 pics on that trip and I haven't even got a chance to look at some of them, so I'm hoping there are some more like that.  Wow! |
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Post by Man in Black on Sept 20, 2010 10:07:28 GMT -5
Yeah, I have so many freakin' pictures to sort through. I keep telling myself "I'm not taking so many this time" and then I take more. But, it keeps me busy at least.
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Post by Jason on Sept 21, 2010 0:15:20 GMT -5
It seems like your calling. To be a photographer.  |
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Post by Man in Black on Sept 24, 2010 13:09:25 GMT -5
Maybe someday somebody will pay me to do it ;D Here's another wave pic I thought was cool. This was the day before they wouldn't let people in the water. Though I still think it was a good idea to stay out. and here is one where you can see the wall of hurricane Earl to the East. I couldn't resist posting these large even if it did stretch the screen  |
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Post by Jason on Sept 24, 2010 18:00:02 GMT -5
Nice! Is the first one a picture of someone wiping out? |
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Post by Man in Black on Sept 28, 2010 4:32:23 GMT -5
Haha, no but I'm sure they probably felt like it after fighting through that mess. It's just a kid with a boogie board trying to get... well I'm not sure what he/she was trying to do because I can't imagine catching any of those waves... if you could even call them waves. That day they were more like 4ft tall whitewater bombs. The next day (1st pic I posted in the thread) they were between 12 and 15 ft all day and were probably great for surfing... but nobody was, which was good.
Those big waves were the only time I ever remember seeing waves out here that even came close to resembling the ones you see in pictures of the Pacific. The water stays so turbulent that when the waves build they are just smashing around too much to get that nice surfing form. That's another thing on my bucket list... to get to the pacific and watch monster waves for like... a week straight.
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Post by Jason on Oct 6, 2010 22:05:44 GMT -5
That had to have been a great time. Chris and I were coming through Arizona back home, today. We woke up in the morning about 50 miles away from the Grand Canyon. HUGE storms surrounded us. Lightning everywhere and there was actually a tornado warning for where we were. We went up the Grand Canyon where we got some pictures. The weather was cloudy, but very calm. On the way back down, I got a phone call from my dad saying a tornado hit Arizona, right near us. It tore through an RV lot, tossing one about 1 mile across the highway, ripped down a few telephone poles and derailed a train. We were debating going up to the Grand Canyon, and I'm willing to bet if we didn't, we would've seen that tornado. We didn't know where the tornado actually hit until we passed by the damage. We pulled over and took some pictures. I'm telling you, studying tornadoes and seeing the destruction from pictures does NO justice for actually being there and seeing what it could do in person. We got a few pictures that I'll put up in the next few days, but for now, here are a couple of news articles. One with pictures of the debris. www.globalwinnipeg.com/Tornado+hits+Arizona/3633964/story.htmlktar.com/index.php?nid=6&sid=1255437 |
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Hopefully you get to see them rock the house, again. I'm sure they performed well!
