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December 11, 2008

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The rain started at 2am last night. This was no pitter-patter on the rooftop shit - we're talking buckets and buckets of warm, Kona-fueled sky opening up on this little island in the middle of the Pacific. Thunder. Lightning. Bending palm trees. Rivers opening up and spilling into the lineups. Flooding. The whole Nine Yards.

Put it this way: it rained almost a foot between 2am and 8am. Emergency teams were dispatched to help evacuate some residents from Haleiwa Beach Road and Kipapa Gulch. School closures and road closures happened across the island, leaving the North Shore semi isolated all morning.

Agricultural waste (read: pig excrement) made its way down the hills and out the Paumalu and Waimea rivers, soiling yesterday's perfect blue lineups a muddy brown. Adding insult to injury, the swell dropped down to a weak shoulder high, making the Seven-mile Miracle look more like the Outer Banks than Oahu. Adding injury to injury, if you paddled out today with any kind of open wound, you were risking some kind of crazy sickness.

Looks like the storm could be blowing through, however, and with some more swell on the way, it looks like the Billabong Pipeline Masters could finish up this weekend. Stay tuned.

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