WAVES

With today's big rain storm came a huge swell with some crazy waves. Here's the view along West Cliff near the Lane. There were a handful of surfers out there, some of the infamous big wave riders.

Coincidentally, this morning's New York Times had a front page story about surfing Lake Erie in Cleveland. "It was the kind of day that lives mostly in Cleveland surfers’ fantasies. Pushed by the storm’s winds, water the color of chocolate milk rose 10 feet in the air before slamming onto a beach of boulders and logs....“Surfing Lake Erie is basically disgusting,” said Bill Weeber, known as Mongo, 44."

You can read the entire article at http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/us/10surf.html?_r=1&oref=slogin