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[Drunk Monk]

Two shot at Crows Nest restaurant
By
 Todd Guild
- 
 August 8, 2024
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Two people were shot Thursday night in the parking lot of the Crows Nest restaurant in Santa Cruz, and police from several jurisdictions are looking for the suspects.
The incident occurred just before 9pm.
Watsonville police were among several law enforcement agencies on the scene.
According to police dispatchers heard via a scanner, one man was shot six times in the chest.
One victim was flown via air ambulance to an out-of-area trauma center, while another was taken by ground ambulance to Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, dispatchers said.
A witness who lives at the harbor said he heard 3-5 gunshots.
Police were looking for a man wearing a red puffy coat, and a black female adult. Law enforcement officials initiated Project R.O.P.E., in which they closely monitor likely escape routes and other roads.
After the shooting, a man with a gun was spotted near the Chardonnay dock near the Murray Street Bridge.
This story will be updated.



The Crow’s Nest is about a 15-20 min walk from our bungalow…

[thatguy]

Two shot at Crows Nest restaurant
By
 Todd Guild
- 
 August 8, 2024
3472

Two people were shot Thursday night in the parking lot of the Crows Nest restaurant in Santa Cruz, and police from several jurisdictions are looking for the suspects.
The incident occurred just before 9pm.
Watsonville police were among several law enforcement agencies on the scene.
According to police dispatchers heard via a scanner, one man was shot six times in the chest.
One victim was flown via air ambulance to an out-of-area trauma center, while another was taken by ground ambulance to Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, dispatchers said.
A witness who lives at the harbor said he heard 3-5 gunshots.
Police were looking for a man wearing a red puffy coat, and a black female adult. Law enforcement officials initiated Project R.O.P.E., in which they closely monitor likely escape routes and other roads.
After the shooting, a man with a gun was spotted near the Chardonnay dock near the Murray Street Bridge.
This story will be updated.



The Crow’s Nest is about a 15-20 min walk from our bungalow…

Thursday nights are the Summer Beach party events. https://crowsnest-santacruz.com/live-entertainment/

Yesterday was The Joint Chiefs who I highly (pun intended) recommend...

If the shooting was by the Crow's Nest parking lot, to get over to the Chardonnay dock, you'd have to walk all the way down to where West Cliff crosses the harbor, take that bridge, then go down to the other side of the harbor. 

Or..take the free water taxi.

Hmm...What does Poirot say? 

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[Drunk Monk]

Bummer 

Santa Cruz Harbor event canceled over safety concerns a week after shooting

Updated: 6:06 PM PDT Aug 13, 2024

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SANTA CRUZ, Calif. —
The Santa Cruz Port District announced they will be canceling the remaining Thursday Night Beach Barbeque events for the summer.
The barbeque events were free events hosted by the Crow's Nest.
The decision was made due to a shooting that occurred on August 8, 2024, near the event location. The shooting left two victims in critical condition.
"The Port District deeply regrets having to cancel the remaining Thursday Night Beach Barbeque events but it is the most responsible course of action as we evaluate the impacts to public safety associated with large gatherings at the harbor," said Port Director, Holland MacLaurie in a statement.
The Port District said they will work with the Crow's Nest Restaurant to review the future of the event.

There was another shooting last night near downtown. WTF?

[thatguy]

Bummer 

Santa Cruz Harbor event canceled over safety concerns a week after shooting

Updated: 6:06 PM PDT Aug 13, 2024

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Ricardo Tovar  
[url=https://www.ksbw.com/news-team/c672e131-0cf6-420f-86bb-9600babd4adc]Digital Content Manager

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SANTA CRUZ, Calif. —
The Santa Cruz Port District announced they will be canceling the remaining Thursday Night Beach Barbeque events for the summer.
The barbeque events were free events hosted by the Crow's Nest.
The decision was made due to a shooting that occurred on August 8, 2024, near the event location. The shooting left two victims in critical condition.
"The Port District deeply regrets having to cancel the remaining Thursday Night Beach Barbeque events but it is the most responsible course of action as we evaluate the impacts to public safety associated with large gatherings at the harbor," said Port Director, Holland MacLaurie in a statement.
The Port District said they will work with the Crow's Nest Restaurant to review the future of the event.

There was another shooting last night near downtown. WTF?

I saw on the news that there was a shooting in Monterey near wharf2. The building with the Brit pub and Japanese food was hit and some staff person inside got hit by a fragment or debris...

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[thatguy]

It's the end of the wharf!

The tip of the Santa Cruz wharf fell into the see. And so castles made of sand slip into the sea...eventually.

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[Drunk Monk]

[Drunk Monk]

A Santa Cruz surfer rode potential world-record 108-foot-tall Mavericks wave
By Lester Black,Cannabis editorDec 31, 2024
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Alo Slebir surfs a large wave at Mavericks in Half Moon Bay, Calif., on Dec. 23, 2024.
Frank Quirarte
At about 3:15 p.m. on Dec. 23, as a powerful winter swell raged on the California coast and left the Santa Cruz Wharf snapped and floating in the ocean, Alessandro “Alo” Slebir pointed his surfboard down the face of a growing wall of water. What came next may end up in the history books.
Slebir, a 23-year-old Santa Cruz local, caught a towering wave at the Mavericks surf spot near Half Moon Bay that was recently estimated by Mavericks Rescue Team to be 108 feet tall, which would make it easily the world’s largest wave ever surfed. The current world record is 86 feet.
It’s too early to know if Slebir truly did break the world record. Judging surf wave heights is inherently difficult and contentious, and Frank Quirarte, a member of Mavericks Rescue, said his analysis is still preliminary. It took 18 months of review before the Guinness World Records anointed the current biggest wave ever surfed, Sebastian Steudtner’s 86-foot wave at Nazaré, Portugal. 
Slebir told SFGATE Monday that he’s not dwelling on the wave’s exact height.
“Regardless of the number, it really doesn’t matter how big the wave was to me,” Slebir said. “It was really the biggest wave of my life and that’s all I really care about at the moment.”
Photos and videos of Slebir expertly navigating the barreling wave are already exploding on social media. An Instagram photo of Slebir bombing down the wave’s face was enough for many respectable surfers to decide it was a world record, with pro surfer Kai Lenny commenting, “100 foot wave,” and pro surfer Mason Barnes commenting, “That is the world record.”
The wave is already a contender for this year’s Big Wave Challenge, according to Bill Sharp, the contest’s organizer and an authority on big wave surfing. Sharp told SFGATE that while he thought Quirarte’s 108-foot estimation was “generous,” he added that the wave is “absolutely in the world record territory.”
“Alo’s wave is remarkable. It’s one of the biggest waves that’s ever been seen and captured on photos and videos and they kind of speak for themselves,” Sharp told SFGATE on Monday. “It’s going to require more analysis, but I think 100% in the discussion for the biggest wave ridden.”
Slebir’s wave is not only incredible for its size, but also for its perfect barreling shape and how Slebir rode the entire wave face. Slebir expertly carved a graceful line from the top of the wave to the bottom and then turned into a colossal barrel before safely exiting out the beastly wave’s shoulder. To do that on an 8-foot-wave requires incredible skill. To do it on a wave as large as Slebir’s is likely unheard of.
Sharp called the wave an “extraordinary cartoonish barrel.”
“Back in my day in school, I never would have thought to draw a wave that big. That’s beyond any cartoon I would have thought as a youngster,” Sharp said.
Slebir first surfed Mavericks when he was just 14 and has been a fixture at the surf break for the past few years with his surfing partner Luca Padua, who is from Half Moon Bay. Both surfers paddle into many waves at Mavericks, but Monday’s incredibly powerful surf required Jet Skis for surfers to gain enough speed to ride the towering waves. Slebir said the pair worked for seven hours without taking a break during the historic swell. Slebir gave Padua 99% of the credit for the wave because his tow partner placed him perfectly into it.
Both surfers have garnered growing recognition for their exploits at Mavericks, with Slebir winning “Performer of the Year” at the surf break twice and Padua training with big wave surfing icon Laird Hamilton, though neither surfer has a major financial sponsor. Slebir said he still works construction in the summers so he can take time off to hit every swell at Mavericks he can. 
Last Monday’s historic waves were certainly worth his time.  
“I’ve never seen waves of that size in my lifetime,” Slebir said. “That’s not saying a whole lot because I’m only 23 years old. The old timers always say, ‘You’ll see another one,’ but that was our Mount Everest for Mavericks. You never know, it could happen next week or not again for another 30 years.”

[Greg]

Good for the local!

[Drunk Monk]

https://www.santacruzpumas.org/puma-tracker/

[Drunk Monk]

Srsly? WTF? 

evacuation orders in Monterey County
KTVU
Thu, January 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM GMT-7
Monterey County sent out an emergency alert system warning Thursday evening to say the North County Fire Department is responding to a fire at Moss Landing Power Plant. A battery storage facility has caught fire. Some areas are under evacuation orders, officials said.

[thatguy]

Srsly? WTF? 

evacuation orders in Monterey County
KTVU
Thu, January 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM GMT-7
Monterey County sent out an emergency alert system warning Thursday evening to say the North County Fire Department is responding to a fire at Moss Landing Power Plant. A battery storage facility has caught fire. Some areas are under evacuation orders, officials said.

From the pix I've seen on FB from new reports, the flames are as high as the old Power Plant smoke stacks. The batteries are probably in thermal runaway and the firefighters can't do anything. It is the largest battery "plant" in the world. They had a fire there in 2022, IIRC. Very toxic. Locating on the edge of a Marine Sanctuary and a natural preserve seems like a bad idea.

They decommissioned the old power plant and for the last year have been demolishing all the buildings and equipment around the old stacks. 

https://www.ksbw.com/article/fire-moss-l...a/63456595

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[Drunk Monk]

Holy cats!

That’s some serious hail.

My lIephone forecast is ‘partly cloudy’

[thatguy]

Parliament Funkadelic coming to the UCSC quarry 4/26

https://www.ticketweb.com/event/parliame...s/14265593

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[Drunk Monk]

Saw that. Tempting. I got like 6 shows around 4/20 tho so I don’t know if I have the bandwidth. You going?

[thatguy]

I don't think so...but who knows.

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