Pismo Beach Surf Competition Day 1 Cancelled For High Surf
Jarrod Zinn
PISMO BEACH, Calif. (KEYT) – Day one of the three-day Surfing For Hope competition had to be cancelled due to high surf at Pismo Beach today.
Surfing For Hope is a non-profit dedicated to easing the difficulty of cancer, using benefits yielded from surfing and ocean life.
A rain storm passed through the central coast last night.
It’s expected to return in force later tonight and stick around for the weekend.
Surfing For Hope competition organizers say the resulting high surf at Pismo Beach fully consumed the sand of the beach in the early hours this morning.
A few early surfers had significant difficulty navigating the waves, and when a couple broken boards washed up on the shore, they knew they had to cancel the day.
Surfing For Hope will be back as planned Saturday and Sunday, rain or shine.
“This is the third year in a row we’ve been we’ve had to cancel one of the three days because of large surf, and we’re going to be able to cram it into two days,” says Andy Mckay, Surfing For Hope’s associate director. “It’s not ideal, but we’re going to do our best to pull it off. We have a lot of rain coming tomorrow, but the surfers don’t care. They’re already wet. As long as it’s not lightning, we’re going to run through Saturday and hopefully Sunday.”
In Santa Maria, the storm is putting a damper on weekend activities.
The Santa Barbara Humane Society’s Santa Maria car show has been cancelled due to the rain in the weekend’s forecast.
But it’s not all doom and gloom.
Since the sun is shining warmly for the day, locals and tourists have been out enjoying the beach air before the storm returns.
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