Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Toxic Soup Of The Day

It rained nearly 2 inches in San Diego yesterday and sure enough there were people surfing the beaches at PB drive this morning. One of them was an old friend of mine. I cannot for the life of me imagine why anyone would want to risk their health for crappy 2-3 foot beachbreak slop. Even if the surf was really good it would be foolhardy and not worth entering the water when the levels of bacteria are just so far off the chart.

The pathogens and coliforms and all the rest of the toxic soup in the water right now and for at least the next 3 days warrants severe restraint on even the most hardcore surf junkie. But don't take my word for it; just read the newspaper or go online and look. Open your eyes boy's and girls's its not going to go away or get any better until the we stop allowing our runoff to pour off the streets, into the gutters, to the storm drains and on to the beaches and into our bodies and those of our children and theirs and so on.

Is the status quo OK with you? Are you down with it Bro? Is that just the way it is so we have to deal with it? I don't think so! What about you?