In Santa Cruz, CA. All the beaches are chain-linked fenced off.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

This for a celebration of liberty and freedom... dontcha know?

My LTTE of the SC Sentinel is as follows:

So. Here we find the roads and beaches curtained with chain link fences and bright spot lights in anticipation of our celebration of "freedom" and "liberty".
Yay!
What a sad state of affairs.
This town used to stand for something greater than a spotlight for curtailing a right to put down "disobedience".
No USA! USA! here. It's very sad.

I'm here, NSA.

[NYC_SKP]

1. Links please. I'm going there tomorrow, I go there often.

I might even move there.

TIA

[HCE SuiGeneris]

2. It is not anything other than an observation.

No hyperbole.

NYC_SKP, Santa Cruz is an awesome haven from the average, normally. 4th of July brings out the worst of the control police though.

[NYC_SKP]

3. Usually, I avoid the 4th, but I've been going to those parts yearly for 50 years.

Thanks for the heads up, I hadn't planned on any police action but feel forewarned.

Do you live there?

I may become your neighbor!

[REP]

4. I live very near the summit

Let me say this: I want all you people out of my driveway (SR17).

I freakin hate weekends/holidays - well, Friday night northbound/Sunday nights southbound - up here

[NYC_SKP]

11. 17 has always been an interesting drive.

Having driven it for 40 years now, I can say that the concrete divider is a definite improvement!

I'm shopping for homes/land from La Selva Beach to Montara-- fixers or something that an old-school Democrat can afford.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

5. I do live here.

Cops are banning cars from Capitola Road @ 7th Ave on down to the beach. It seems like it might be a cluster-fuck.
From what used to be a celebration... in the ole days. *sigh*

[REP]

6. Have you noticed the week of 100F weather we've had?

It's going to be hot as fuck tomorrow, too. Add booze, the usual throngs of people who cannot drive for shit who go there on the weekend - I'm guessing they're expecting more problems than usual. Yay.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

7. This year is little different than the last 100

I have seen Star Wars on the beaches here since the late 60's.
The amount of "security" is way beyond "normal".

BTW, I meant to write this same OP 3 years ago.

[snooper2]

8. it will be okay in the morning

Promise. You'll wake up and forget all about it

[HCE SuiGeneris]

9. Yes. Tell me more...

zzzzzzzzzzzzz

[REP]

10. No, it won't. We're still under a severe heat freak out advisory

Hard to forget about when you go outside and catch fire.

[KurtNYC]

12. Well hopefully the fences will contain "all the damned vampires"...

[Hayduke2000]

13. Fences are the result of too many visitors

From the perspective of those of us who live in Santa Cruz, the fences are a response to the overwhelming flux of people who come to the beach on July 4th from over the hill. Our neighborhoods are inundated with cars. We can't go anywhere. We can't do anything but huddle in our homes and wait fro the blessed relief of July 5th. We are bomblasted with fireworks, our pets are frightened to death, sometimes literally. Wildlife is terrified and scattered to the four winds.

The beaches become a war zone, awash in alcohol, drugs, weapons, gangs and tourists.

Just think of thousands of people invading your neighborhood for a day!

The fences are necessary so that our local constabulary, working overtime, can control the influx of destructive materials that visitors bring to the beaches.

If everyone would come to the beach, have a nice time, leave the fireworks and alcohol, guns and knives, foul language and pugnacious attitudes at home, the fences would not be necessary.

[RobertEarl]

14. Love it or leave it

I bet the city dwellers feel the same as you from monday to friday.

The hordes! Their noise their cars, their garbage. This city would be a nice place but for all the damn visitors.

[Liberal_in_LA]

15. I'm glad the folks in Pasadena are welcoming on the 1st for the Rose Parade.

and don't consider us to be invaders