Storm chaser wants to surf a hurricane
I found an adventure story in the Denver Post today - and many of us may dream of it: storm surfing. First of all, storms and oceans are a deadly combination for everybody in the water.
And now the story: Scott Willoughby, writer at the Denver Post and considered to be a meteorologist, gets fascinated by the hurricane “Lane”. “Lane” is a pacific hurricane approaching the Mexican coast and the Baja California.
Life-long storm chaser Scott thanks for this chance (by random he enjoyed his vacations in that region) and wants to sit out la tormenta at the East Campe, south of Los Cabos. Other guys joins him. One of them, a San Fran surfer named Brad, was on the hunt - for the hurricane waves.
The night full of expectations, full of what-ifs and what-will-happen, the next day clear and fresh, “Lane” turned away and headed into an other direction, leaving Baja California as it was. No hurricane winds, no hurrican waves.
Scott said: “Everything’s relative, I reminded myself as we piled our hurricane survival kit into the rental car and joined the real surfers camped out to the south. I hadn’t come to Cabo to kill myself, or even to prove anything I didn’t already know: that no matter what, the wave riding is still better than it will ever be in Colorado. I paddled out, rode back in, and gave thanks for the opportunity. La tormenta had passed.”
