Monday, December 23, 2024
Coastal Flood Event happening in northern California: Largest Wave sets up to 60 feet: Coastal Flood warning until noon Tuesday!
* WHAT...For the High Surf Warning, dangerously large breaking
waves of 30 to 40 feet, with largest wave sets up to 60 feet at
favored spots. For the Coastal Flood Warning, coastal
flooding in low lying areas.
* WHERE...San Francisco, Coastal North Bay Including Point Reyes
National Seashore, San Francisco Peninsula Coast, Northern
Monterey Bay and Southern Monterey Bay and Big Sur Coast
Counties.
* WHEN...For the High Surf Warning, until 6 PM PST Tuesday. For
the Coastal Flood Warning, until noon PST Tuesday.
* IMPACTS...Life-threatening swimming and surfing conditions and
significant shoreline erosion can be expected. Numerous roads
may be closed, and sand berms over-topped. Large waves can sweep
across the beach without warning, pulling people into the sea
from rocks, jetties and beaches. Sudden immersion in cold water
can result in cold water shock even for the most experienced
swimmers. Cold water shock can result in dramatic changes in
breathing, heart rate and blood pressure, greatly increasing the
risk of drowning in rough open waters.
Amber Heard speaks out about Blake Lively allegations against Justin Baldoni: 'I saw this firsthand'
Amber Heard speaks out about Blake Lively allegations against Justin Baldoni: 'I saw this firsthand'
Amber Heard said social media is where a lie becomes the truth in response to the complaint Blake Lively filed against her “It Ends With Us” co-star Justin Baldoni, telling NBC News on Monday she "saw this firsthand."
Lively accused Baldoni, the film's director, of sexual harassment, creating a hostile work environment and trying to tarnish her reputation with a targeted social media campaign in an undated complaint filed with the California Civil Rights Department.
The complaint said Baldoni retained prominent PR crisis manager Melissa Nathan — the woman Johnny Depp hired during his high-profile trial defamation trial against Heard, his former wife.
In an exclusive statement shared with NBC News, Heard, who lives in Spain, said: “Social media is the absolute personification of the classic saying ‘A lie travels halfway around the world before truth can get its boots on.’ I saw this firsthand and up close. It’s as horrifying as it is destructive.”
A jury unanimously found that Heard had defamed Depp, and he was awarded $5 million in punitive damages and $10 million in compensatory damages. Heard was also awarded $2 million in compensatory damages in her counterclaim but nothing in punitive damages.
At the time, Depp said “the jury gave me my life back,” but Heard said the decision “sets back the clock to a time when a woman who spoke up and spoke out could be publicly shamed and humiliated.”
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According to Lively's complaint, Baldoni hired a crisis communications team to launch a “retaliatory social manipulation campaign” against Lively during the film’s promotion aimed at destroying her reputation.
Nathan delivered Baldoni a plan consisting of “social media mitigation," including “proactive fan posting" and “social manipulations,” to “help change narrative” during the film's promotion, the complaint said.
The film's promotion made headlines at the time because the two stars appeared to avoid each other as rumors swirled on social media that they did not get along on the set.
Fans also noticed that Baldoni was doing media separately from his co-stars and that some of the film’s stars, including Lively and Jenny Slate, did not follow him on Instagram.
Bryan Freedman, who is representing Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and all its representatives, called the allegations in Lively's complaint “categorically false.”
He alleged that Wayfarer hired a crisis communications team because Lively threatened not to show up on the set during filming and threatened not to promote the film.
Freedman said Monday in response to Heard's comments, “TAG PR must be the most powerful group of publicists the world has ever seen for it to be able to completely change the perception of both Amber Heard and Blake Lively.”
He said the only correlation between both cases is that "every move they have made has been out there for everyone to see, widely filmed and documented for the public to make up their own minds — which they did, organically."
Here's the weather advisory regarding Waves nearby San Francisco Coastal area
High Surf and Tide
entire Coastline
Especially northwest facing beaches
Also, Higher tides
Waves
20 to 30 feet up to 40 feet
Main concerns
large breaking Waves
Long Period Swells= sneaker waves
Strong rip currents and Cold Water
Coastal Flooding
quote from KSBW TV news at noon Monday
The coastal state park my daughter and I were visiting today already had 6 rescues of people being washed away by waves
I don't think there were any fatalities but injuries like hypothermia where you start hallucinating are pretty common even if you aren't banged on rocks going out and coming in from the 15 to 20 foot waves.
After my experience yesterday I have decided not to go on ANY Beach until the 20 to 35 foot waves have stopped within a few days. Also, it is flooding nearby rivers at high tide whether it is raining or not because when you have a high tide along with high surf the waves to far inland up the river and keep the water from coming out which often causes flooding.
Locals usually understand just how dangerous it is in storms like this (or they aren't around anymore) but often tourists who aren't living around an ocean all the time are fooled by how beautiful the waves are and try to get good pictures closer and are swept away to their deaths this time of year.
So, basically stay off the beaches during a storm this ferocious if you want to stay alive. I know some surfers still brave these storms for good waves. But, it's also true they are more experienced than most people with big waves. Also, if they are washed off their board and leash they can swim in their wet suits and maybe still make it to the shore through the waves whereas people without wet suits on are gone usually within 15 minutes this time of year if they are swept out to sea. They don't come back.