Surf’s up, dude!
ahhhh….. Maybe not!
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The news hit Orange County like a cold wave: California’s governor was shutting down the beaches.
A “hard close” order took effect on Friday for seashores from wealthy Newport Beach to artsy Laguna Beach and down Doheny way.
It followed a weekend where tens of thousands of the landlocked and homebound hit the sands south of Los Angeles County, where beaches have been closed for weeks. Newsom scolded people for defying the spirit of his statewide stay-at-home order, designed to slow the spread of the coronavirus that has killed some 2,000 people in the state.
“People that are congregating there, that weren’t practicing physical distancing … may not even know that they contracted the disease and now they put other people at risk.”
Gavin Newsom
Governor, California
Newsom said he hoped it would be “a very short-term adjustment,” although the directive had no termination date.
Maureen Osborne is a resident of Huntington Beach, which proudly declares itself “Surf City, USA.” She was torn by the closure of the sweeping, scenic beach just a 10-minute walk from her home.
She hasn’t gone there much since the coronavirus outbreak because the neighborhood has become crowded with visitors who park their cars to walk down to the shore. But wishes she could.
“It is what it is……..If people are sensible and do what they’re supposed to with the social distancing — but not everybody is.”
Maureen Osborne
Resident, Huntington Beach
Orange County beaches closed by California’s governor
H/T Sufferfortribe
Calamity Jane