Some read in the paper that President Joe Biden was coming Thursday to tour storm damage in Santa Cruz County. Others had seen coverage on TV, or heard about it on the radio. A few only learned that something big was up when the two presidential helicopters and trio of military Osprey aircraft thundered over the region.
Hundreds of people crowded into Capitola Village, where Biden was to tour damaged waterfront restaurants and bars, and onto the bluffs above Seacliff State Beach where he was to make a speech in front of a state-owned wharf left broken and sagging by one of several catastrophic storms to hit the region over