{"id":181951,"date":"2026-02-17T21:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T21:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/181951\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T21:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T21:16:10","slug":"man-goes-street-surfing-after-heavy-flooding-in-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/181951\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Goes Street Surfing After Heavy Flooding in Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why walk to the beach for a surfing session when you could literally surf there? For one man in Long Beach, California, street surfing sounded like fun, so he gave it a try. Hayden de Leon \u201csurfed\u201d behind a Toyota Tacoma as it drove through the flooded streets of this Southern-California city. Local news shared footage of the stunt, and many people are getting a chuckle from it.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/outdoors.com\/watch-beaver-goes-surfing-in-a-winter-wonderland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">WATCH: Beaver Goes \u2018Surfing\u2019 in a Winter Wonderland<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA powerful winter storm is sweeping through Southern California Monday, bringing heavy rain, strong winds and snow,\u201d wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ktla5news\/?g=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">KTLA 5 News<\/a>. \u201cWhile the wet conditions caused a traffic headache for many, a man in Long Beach had a bit of fun with the heavy flooding on the streets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch a man go \u201cstreet surfing\u201d in Long Beach:<\/p>\n<p>Header stock image by simonkr\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why walk to the beach for a surfing session when you could literally surf there? For one man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[86205,131,133,132,62],"class_list":{"0":"post-181951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-funny-video","9":"tag-long-beach","10":"tag-long-beach-headlines","11":"tag-long-beach-news","12":"tag-rain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}