After weeks of rain-soaked soils and related flooding, the National Weather Service’s high surf advisory, extending through Saturday morning, had emergency responders on edge this week.
Powerful storm waves roll into Seacliff State Beach between the Cement Ship and the heavily damaged pier.
At the same time, widespread national news coverage of Santa Cruz County’s severe weather impacts has reached Bolinas resident Lloyd Kahn reminiscing about another of the area’s most significant storms, in December 1955. Kahn told the Sentinel about being a 20-year-old who seized the opportunity to grab his surfboard and roommate George Kovalenko and put their surfboards in the San Lorenzo River on the outskirts of the city so they could paddle all the way to the river.
“There were refrigerators and cars and sections of houses going down the river and every bridge was demolished. We were paddling to stay away from all the stuff that was bobbing around in the water. It was fun, because we weren’t standing up but we were going pretty fast,” Kahn said. “The bridges were collapsed, but we got under sections of all them.”
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