Well Saturday my brother in law came down from Idaho and co-worker form SLC wanted to go out on his new Kite and so we headed to ULSSB Sat afternoon around 5pm. Checked radar and saw nothing coming from SW where everything had come from. Obviously I missed the weather warning on the news.....Rainstorm had just went thru from SE and thru Heber and got there sun was out slight SE wind Pumped up 17's and within 40 mins nice SE wind came so went out but is was a little light. Still clear sunny nothing finally got about 12mph and enough to go. Took few runs and got quite a ways out having difficult time to get upwind when wind just shut off I was way out farther than I should have been. At this time I was just floating in the lake of glass when i started to notice few dark clouds coming from the North. This storm looked really bad but no wind and nowhere to go. I was half way to Lincoln beach several miles from any shores. I there was no wind line but all of a sudden North wind hit hard I power up and headed back wind went nuclear and I could not hold it down I got pulled off my board drug underwater and came flying straight up about 30 feet in the air with no sign of slowing down so I ejected and fell back into the water as my kite disappeared. Now I was in middle of massive waves and 40 plus wind storm 3 miles from any shore. I started to look like a torndao was forming.. I thought I might be blown toward the southernmost shore but after 1 hour I hadn’t moved so decided to try to make it to the east below ULSSB but still had several miles to go. Floating was difficult since waves were constantly crashing knocking my under. I was dark and storm wasn't letting up so decide to swim as best I could being a great swimmer for another few hours straight I noticed I was making progress and plowed on until I got to the shore and walked around the shoreline until I got to beach and left.
I know there were several lessons learned
1} Always check weather forecast warnings. I did check in AM but evidently missed the evening news severe weather forecast for hail, flooding and high wind.
2) Don’t ever fly offshore even in light wind beyond where you can touch and walk back.
3) Didn’t bring rescue boat or jet ski with unpredictable wind.
4) I had phone with me and could call out but it was in waterproof container so they could not hear me and hands were too cold so I phone buttons need some heat to activate.
I am sure I made other mistakes but I am glad I made it back ok and just want to put as a reminder when Craig or others say stay where you can get off the water quickly if you see clouds and lightning do not go out far at all… Went back out and took jet ski and found the kite right where I thought it would be on the farthest south shore half way between Lincoln and ULSSB. Still pumped up and no damage..