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Crazy Swell Bombs  Puerto Escondido

Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 21 June, 2006 : - - With surf reaching record heights in Puerto Escondido tow surfers took to the water to ride some of the biggest waves ever ridden at the famous beach break. Scott Chandler  and Chuck Patterson took advantage and got to Puerto early in the week to get their game plan set and it paid off.

Chandler and Patterson surfed solo on Sun as the swell made its way into southern Mexico,, by sunset they had rode some awesome size surf and had to quickly get their PWC off the beach as waves broke so big and washed all the way up to the hotels front doors. Owner of the bungalows Zicatella  said he has never had the water come so high up to his hotel and resturaunt. City officals closed all the resturaunts and called in civil defence,, the military,, police,, and fire dept.  there were over 60 soldiers with guns incase of looting as the palapa resturaunts washed away.

It was crazy said Chandler and Patterson who were sitting with skindog ken collins , we almost saw a army hummer wash away full of soldiers, and all the chairs, tables  and palaps were floating down the street at one point..

Monday morning tow teams Chandler / Patterson, Kenny Collins / CoCo  Nogales  and Danillo from Brazil all ripped the huge size surf with clean conditions as tons of onlookers clapped and applauded. It was a awesome display of high performace surfing that lasted all day..

Check back, the video will be out soon

Scott Chandler

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Heavy surf pounds Pacific Coast from Chile to California Bayardo Mendoza

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) - A freakishly powerful storm far off in the South Pacific propelled huge swells to the Americas, causing a surge of waves that battered homes and beachfront businesses from Peru to Mexico, authorities said Tuesday.

High surf kicked up as far south as northern Chile and as far north as Southern California, but no deaths or serious injuries were reported as several hundred people were evacuated in at least eight countries. The barrage began Sunday, and the waves were beginning to weaken Tuesday afternoon, meteorologists said.

"We expect them to gradually subside over the next 24 to 48 hours," said Hugh Cobb, at the National Hurricane Center in Miami. The waves resulted from a particularly intense low pressure system several hundred kilometres off New Zealand that caused hurricane force winds and rare snowfall at sea level. Masses of water were shoved eastward, creating unusually big waves when the swells hit the Americas.

"The storm system that generated these waves was fairly extraordinary," Cobb said.............

Read the full article at Canada.com

Thousand-Mile Waves Damage Central American Coast

GUATEMALA CITY - A storm thousands of miles away sent huge waves across the Pacific to the Central American coast, damaging dozens of homes and properties in four countries, emergency services said on Tuesday. Waves measuring up to 12 feet (3.6 meters), started moving across the Galapagos Islands on Sunday. They hit the Central America shoreline on Monday.

Local officials in Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador reported relatively minor damage across the poor, disaster-prone region. There were no deaths. Guatemala's disaster relief agency said the storm that caused the waves could have happened as far away as New Zealand. The waves were diminishing in size and intensity on Tuesday.

In Guatemala, about 20 homes and properties were flooded and two families evacuated. About 30 houses were flooded and 188 people evacuated in Nicaragua, 80 homes were damaged in Honduras and 30 in El Salvador, emergency services said. Pacific storms have devastated Central America in the past. As a new tropical storm season begins, many villages in Guatemala and around the region are still in ruins from last year's Hurricane Stan that killed several thousand people, many in mudslides.

Read the full article at Planetark.com

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