# Point Break Your Neck **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 18, 2018, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-break-your-neck/826310 "2018-12-18T05:50:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-break-your-neck/826310/1 "2018-12-18T05:50:52Z")
Not satisfied with wildfires, [California is now expecting waves up to fifty feet](https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/weather/2018/12/17/stay-well-backor-risk-certain-death-giant-waves-slamming-california-coast/). Living on the East coast, my idea of a big wave is more like five feet (and I’ve been to areas where they approach five inches.) ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-break-your-neck/826310/2 "2018-12-18T06:14:55Z")
Wow, I’d like to be at Point Reyes or someplace like that to watch the surf. And yeah, after getting used to West coast waves, I was bemused by the five inch waves I saw at Tybee island. Who turned off the ocean? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-break-your-neck/826310/3 "2018-12-18T06:17:31Z")
Cue **Tool** … ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-break-your-neck/826310/4 "2018-12-18T13:18:33Z")
> [@Dag\_Otto](#): > > Wow, I’d like to be at Point Reyes or someplace like that to watch the surf. To be fair, this is exactly what the warnings are trying to prevent. DON"T GO STAND ON THE CLIFF/BEACH TO WATCH THE BIG-ASS WAVES, YOU COULD GET WASHED AWAY AND DIE! But, people will be people. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-break-your-neck/826310/5 "2018-12-18T13:25:12Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > BIG-ASS WAVES Avast! Brown tide approaches! ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-break-your-neck/826310/6 "2018-12-18T14:22:31Z")
A surfing competition has been postponed? Wimps. Hold my beer … ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-break-your-neck/826310/7 "2018-12-18T15:12:56Z")
[This](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/24/d5/c5/24d5c57dd66a1a1c22ba2ea218dbe212.jpg) should be the official California state cartoon. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-break-your-neck/826310/8 "2018-12-18T17:14:37Z")
Even with the floods and fires and waves and quakes, California is the best state to live in. The rest of the US must truly suck. 😃 Notwithstanding ‘the south’ ™, that suckitude is well documented. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-break-your-neck/826310/9 "2018-12-18T17:34:24Z")
Several years ago there was a “rogue” wave during the Mavericks competition that took out a bunch of spectators:[https://youtu.be/FPdq-QAB-cU](https://youtu.be/FPdq-QAB-cU). You do not want to be on the beach when there are sets of giant waves coming in. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-break-your-neck/826310/10 "2018-12-18T18:34:33Z")
The movie The Last Wave scared the shit out of me when I was a kid so I would stay far away. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-break-your-neck/826310/11 "2018-12-18T21:42:44Z")
> [@Dag\_Otto](#): > > And yeah, after getting used to West coast waves, I was bemused by the five inch waves I saw at Tybee island. Who turned off the ocean? Here in the Southeast, we prefer our oceans flat and our hair wavy. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-break-your-neck/826310/12 "2018-12-18T23:19:50Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > To be fair, this is exactly what the warnings are trying to prevent. DON"T GO STAND ON THE CLIFF/BEACH TO WATCH THE BIG-ASS WAVES, YOU COULD GET WASHED AWAY AND DIE! But, people will be people. Oh yeah? Here, hold my beer.