Zac Adair didn't need anyone to tell him that Hurricane Bertha delivered something big last month. The roar of the surf could be heard well before he crossed the dune at Carolina Beach. But exactly how good Bertha's waves were remained a blank for someone else to fill even as he stared at the ocean.
A car accident five years ago means Adair peers at the world as if through a soda straw.
Celine Russo is a big part of that. The two met online last summer, after Adair, who uses the Internet with an audio interpreter, looked up information on surf therapy and came up with a link to Russo, assistant director at Maui Surf Girls, a surf school in Hawaii. She was a Prescott graduate and a therapy graduate student.
In August 2003, he was waiting to cross U.S. 158 in Nags Head when a distracted taxi driver veered into him at full speed.
The collision left him on life support for a week, fractured his neck in five places, and broke both legs. But Adair rebounded in miraculous fashion surfing in Panama eight months later.
The trauma, though, had long arms. One morning in May 2004, Adair ran into the side of his truck, his optic nerves succumbing to a stroke caused by the year-old violence.
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