The National Weather Service has issued a high-surf advisory for coastal areas throughout the Bay Area in effect through Friday.
In Pacifica, some huge waves rolling in. Earlier, KRON4 was at Sharp Park Beach where the waves got so big that the city sent out crews to evacuate the pier and close it down to the public.
At times, 20-foot waves were crashing into the Sharp Park Beach area on Wednesday afternoon.
The waves got so big, city officials decided the pier was no longer safe. A public works crew escorted people off the Pacifica Pier.
And then, they locked the doors and shut it down for the night.
Greg Cochran, a local, came down to see the rookie wave watchers.
“I’m seeing the waves hit people who get to close,” Cochran said.
He was not disappointed. KRON4 met several soaked people along the Sharp Park boardwalk like Jenna. She was walking with her boy Avery who got a nice cold wet surprise from the ocean.
“We were going along and it came out of nowhere,” Jenna said. “I told him to stay by me.”
Most people followed the advice of the posted warning signs and stayed back from the seawall.
Others did not.
“I got hit by several waves,” Teddy Valdez-Denton said.
Valdez-Denton and his friends came down after school to see the waves.
“I was just walking and it just came crashing over,” Valdez-Denton said.
The first soaking was an accident.
After that, the fearless teenagers said bring it on to Mother Nature. They stood as close as they could daring the ocean to hit them again–and again.
The waves just kept coming.