Hurricane Earl moves eastward as surfers catch a wave
While hundreds of thousands took shelter as Hurricane Earl struck Nova Scotia on Saturday, Jason Murray and his wave hungry band of surfers went in search of the biggest ocean swells the storm could muster.
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As a handful of bemused local fisherman watched from their trucks, the surfers put on an impressive performance in the cove below, riding the high breakers sweeping in from the open sea.
These look like they might be the biggest waves produced by Earl on the eastern seaboard, said Murray, an extreme sports photographer from San Clemente, California, who scours the planpatagonia discount storeet for big waves, and who arrived in Halifax last week with his surfing mates in advance of Hurricane Danielle.
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We are still classifying this storm as a hurricane, said Canadian Hurripatagonia outlet store 18cane Center forecaster Chris Fogarty. The eye is still intact. and blow across the province towards Prince Edward Island, clipping Halifax on its way.
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It was also estimated that some 50,000 people were without power in the province as of Saturday morning. and the Annapolis Valley where thousands have gathered this weekend for a popular motorcycle rally, and where fruit farmers were worried about the safety of their orchards were not expatagonia everlong review wireless printerspected to be hit by tpatagonia everlong review yamahahe brunt of the storm, particularly its high winds.
Instead, the south coast of Nova Scotia, an area filled with lobster fishing boats and wharves, plus recreational sailboats, was bracing Saturday morning for the worst Earl might deliver.
In Yarmouth, winds were heavy and rain was pelting down most of Saturday mornipatagonia outlet store 183ng, but power remained on in most of the area and the storm wasn t worrying many local residents, who are accustomed to strong Atlantic gales.
It s not too bad here right now. There s a lot of rain, but we needed it after our dry summer, said Billy Newell, a lobster fisherman who hauled his boat out of the water at the Yarmouth wharf as a precaution on Friday.
Newell spent Saturday morning sitting in his truck with a Tim Horton s coffee and the windshield wipers blazing, watching what he called the crazy surfers in the water at Kelley s Cove.
