When a hurricane named Marie starts spinning in the Pacific, Southern California surfers are inevitably going to think back to 2014. It’s the benchmark, the stuff salty old surfers will be reminiscing to their grandkids about for decades to come. Marie was, and still remains, the best. Period. The OG Hurricane Marie occupies a legendary space in SoCal surf lore. Newport Point saw faces reportedly reaching 15-to-20-feet, while the Wedge went into full mutant mode, producing monstrous walls of water in the 25-to-30-foot range. It was an all-time tropical swell—one that set an impossibly high bar for every hurricane swell that followed. So, when Hurricane Marie 2.0 sent another pulse of tropical energy toward the coast, the comparisons came quickly. “Marie 2.0…all the hype,” mused Santa Cruz-based photographer Ryan “Chachi” Craig, who came down to Orange County to chase waves and capture images.…