On Saturday evening, New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg weighed in on the temptation to surf the Hurricane Sandy swell during his national press conference and storm update for the city:
“Let me say something again and again and again: please, the beaches are dangerous and surfing is extremely dangerous. No surfing please tomorrow. You may want to run the risk, but if we have to send our emergency workers into the ocean to save you, their lives are at risk. And you just don’t have a right to do that to somebody else. So please, tomorrow, I know the surfing looks attractive and there’s more surfing done around here than ever before, but this is just much too dangerous a storm, and for a small amount of pleasure your live might be at danger, but certainly the emergency workers’ lives will be in danger.”
