"The 50-50 balls rolling on the ground, somehow it seemed like they'd pick them up and get a basket when we really needed a stop, " Jerian said.

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FedEx trucks with the word "Ground" in bright green are rolling through neighborhoods.

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About 50 yards below, three dozen surfers took to choppy six to eight foot swells rolling in from the storm that had touched ground in the Carolinas earlier in the day.

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