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My wife and I did the post-storm tour of Marblehead Neck (on land that is!) this morning in the wake of last night's big wind event, which left a lot of downed tree limbs across the town. 60 mph wind gusts and 12 ft seas were forecast overnight. Here's a video of the scene, showing the shoal field between the Neck and Tom Moore's Rock. Note that these breakers were occurring at this morning's high tide... the waves are big...

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Standing on that rock and taking the video was risky enough to earn me some adventure points. A minute after I vacated that spot, a huge set rolled in and washed over the place I'd just been standing.

(I *was* keeping an eye on the incoming sets while I shot this, but this was a perfect reminder of how lots of people have bought the farm while innocently watching the waves...)

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On 11/2/2017 at 11:31 AM, Joseph Berkovitz said:

Standing on that rock and taking the video was risky enough to earn me some adventure points. A minute after I vacated that spot, a huge set rolled in and washed over the place I'd just been standing.

(I *was* keeping an eye on the incoming sets while I shot this, but this was a perfect reminder of how lots of people have bought the farm while innocently watching the waves...)

Whoa!  Yes, I got knocked off my feet once, and almost pulled into the water, while ocean watching on some rocks on a "calm" day in Hawaii. I never even saw the wave that hit me; but I still have scars where I clung to the lava shoreline for dear life as the retreating water dragged me towards the edge. I've never forgotten that moment, glad you didn't have a similar one!

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