Posted on 07/22/2023 12:29:41 PM PDT by DallasBiff
A wall of water as much as 18 feet high rose out of a calm sea and crashed ashore, smashing hundreds of vehicles parked on the beach and causing 75 minor injuries, officials and witnesses said.
An undersea landslide apparently caused the 27-mile-long rogue wave late Friday night, a federal seismologist said Saturday."I saw this huge wall of white water," said Roy Bennett of South Daytona Beach, who was walking on the beach with his wife. "I told my wife to run, and I ran behind her. If we hadn't run, we'd have been pinched in between cars or cars would have been on top of us."
Bennett said he saw people bleeding and many car windows smashed after the water receded. Other witnesses said sailboats were piled on top of vehicles on the drive-on beach. Tow trucks on Saturday pulled out cars shoved under the boardwalk.
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Lot of the locals with pickup trucks make a lot of money bailing folks out.
One is predicted off the Canary Ilands (Africa).
Expected to drive a wall of water into the middle of Florida. Eastern states will be affected less.
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