Hurricane Bill may be grounding swimmers around the New York City area, but surfers are thrilled.
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State parks spokesman George Gorman says almost 2,000 surfers showed up at Montauk Sunday — the most ever counted there. They enjoyed waves that reached as high as 16 feet.
At Jones Beach State Park, high tide brought in so much water that it left behind giant ponds of sea water in the middle of the sand. The pools are two to three feet deep, but lifeguards are asking people to say out of those too, since they’re not being watched by lifeguards.
At Jones Beach and other beaches around the area, officials are keeping people out of the water entirely because of strong currents. At Robert Moses State Park in Babylon, even the sand was shut down for part of the day, submerged under several feet of ocean water.