People do funny things when there’s a long streak of bad waves. They’ll make tubes from tarps. They’ll slide down drainage ditches. And if they’re lucky, they live near a creek that can form a standing wave.
“When the waves are bad, we are so desperate that we will ride urban runoff,” wrote the Skid Kids on YouTube. “Certain wave and tide conditions will build a sand berm that dams the Aliso Creek runoff. The river will break naturally a couple of times a month. If the berm is high enough, water will eventually begin to trickle into the ocean on its own (DIGGING IT OUT IS ILLEGAL) until the flow rate of the river is so great that it creates some impressive rapids.”
It might not be the smartest of ideas to film the digging out of a lagoon in California, but the wave it created ain’t too bad.
