Unbelievable. 1 ft surf and an offshore wind and we have rips???!!! The beach renourishment is at it again. It's ironic that the State and County say this is so we can have a beach for the tourists (it's not, it's so we can keep subsidizing high rises on the dune) and yet, we have to advise them not to go in the water. Welcome to the Idiot State.

How did Brevard become a weird redneck county run by carpetbaggers? We sit on the ocean but aren't even a coastal community anymore. Weird times for sure.

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I was right.

This, from the Melbourne office, National Weather Service, for today:

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RIP CURRENT AND SURF IMPACT... A Moderate Risk of rip currents continues at all central Florida Atlantic beaches today. Always swim near a lifeguard and never swim alone.

And it's almost perfectly flat, should be green flags at the lifeguard stands. I suspect boilerplate language. Doesn't make for credibility for genuinely hazardous days.

In fairness, beach safety is difficult, thanks partly to our hordes of inland tourists. Explaining rip currents to the general public is fairly difficult. And gosh, there's regional differences. Californians make jokes about genuinely big waves on yellow-flag days. We can see red flags with 2' waves.

Yes, please swim near a lifeguard, when they are there, and when we can figure out how to justify paying them. That job position our county is still struggling to comprehend even as the county immediately adjacent to ours has had lifeguards forever. Nothing to see there.

Rips on the causeway! Damn sea level rise. I hope it doesn't migrate up to Bennett Causeway aka Bithlo Beach. All the jets skis will be forced to perform water rescues.

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"If I say it's safe to surf this beach, captain, then it's safe to surf this beach!"

Edited: 07/24/2024 at 08:44 AM by SurfCaster