They carried takeout coffees, walked their dogs, and took pictures of one another standing in front of the crashing East River waves with their cellphones.
Since then, it has been the basis for waves of migrations from the Near East into Europe, most notably the founding and expansion of Ashkenazi Jewish populations.
For some races, the combination of water flowing west and wind blowing east creates a series of choppy five-foot waves.
Among those events exacerbated by climate change were heat waves in Texas and Oklahoma, the East African drought and extreme temperatures in Europe and England.
Advocates of this theory argue that both groups were the original inhabitants of Europe before migratory waves of Indo-Europeans came from the east.
When the wind from the west meets the wind from the east, the sand is pushed upward like the ocean waves the dunes resemble.
An earlier aftershock damaged roads in Lata, a town on the Santa Cruz Island in the far east of the Pacific nation, which was badly hit by the waves.
The framework on which this is all hung is a historical look at the expansion of surfing from its roots in Hawaii, and exactly how and why it spread to certain sometimes bizarre places, always eliciting passion along the way, like river surfing from dam generated waves in Germany to Cuba, Japan and the Middle East.
Stonehaven and Peterhead were hit by coastal flooding at the weekend and people in the north east were warned to steer clear of beaches and harbour areas where large waves could hit.
However, countries along Africa's east coast had a number of hours to brace themselves for the arrival of the giant waves.
But the first waves of marine wind farms are being built in shallower water, nearer consumers, to the east of England and in the Irish Sea.
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