(Seal Beach) -- Attention all employers: If anyone on your staff is a surfer or bodyboarder, they probably won't be in to work today.

They're all at the beach, riding the big waves.

In the surf lingo, conditions are "epic" and occasionally "gnarly.'   I haven't seen the 15-foot breakers that the forecasters predicted would come.  But the swell is plenty big.  Some say it's the largest they've seen in years.

South of the Seal Beach pier, there's a sigalert in the water, with boarders and surfers elbow to elbow.

The huge waves are dangerous, too.  Better be experienced or you could get seriously hurt.  Surfers tell stories about people who got "worked" -- thrown to the bottom by a mountain of water.  You can break bones.

We ran into one high school kid whose surf board split in two this morning.  The power of Mother Nature is nothing to mess with.