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Rogue wave slams into Southern California beachgoers; 9 hospitalized
ktla.com ^ | Dec 28, 2023 | by: Vivian Chow, Chris Wolfe

Posted on 12/29/2023 5:43:36 AM PST by V_TWIN

Video captured the terrifying moment beachgoers were slammed into by a massive rogue wave in Ventura on Thursday.

The incident happened as locals were being warned about a massive swell pounding the Southern California coastline this week.

The rogue wave submerged bystanders at Pierpont Beach on Seaward Avenue around 11 a.m. That area has been hit the hardest with what the National Weather Service called “tremendous wave energy.”

Beachgoers were seen frantically running for their lives. The raging waters destroyed the windows of nearby beachfront buildings and hotels on its destructive path.

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"terrifying"

"massive rogue wave"

"Beachgoers were seen frantically running for their lives"

“It was horrific,” Hoag recalled"

Really?........exaggerate much? SMH "

1 posted on 12/29/2023 5:43:36 AM PST by V_TWIN
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To: V_TWIN

Democrats, through their media whores, will blame this wave on capitalism and climate change.


2 posted on 12/29/2023 5:47:27 AM PST by Dan in Wichita
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To: V_TWIN

You can get your melon thumped pretty good in a situation like that. Around here, it’s usually driftwood. Trucks wouldn’t be any fun, either.


3 posted on 12/29/2023 5:51:16 AM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: V_TWIN

That wasn’t much of a seawall. What pathetic “protection.” But then, they’re probably averse to blocking the migration of sea turtles.


4 posted on 12/29/2023 5:53:17 AM PST by fwdude (.)
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Don’t forget the sea lions


5 posted on 12/29/2023 5:55:58 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: V_TWIN

Blame Sue Nomi.


6 posted on 12/29/2023 5:58:24 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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Is Sue the sister of Otto Krect?


7 posted on 12/29/2023 5:59:18 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ("A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once.")
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To: V_TWIN

LOL Jeans on the beach, like when I saw the couple wearing their masks on a beach.


8 posted on 12/29/2023 6:00:07 AM PST by VastRWCon (Fake News")
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To: Dan in Wichita

Yep.


9 posted on 12/29/2023 6:00:16 AM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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You NEVER want to turn your back on the ocean.

I know a guy who was visiting southern CA on vacation back in the 1980s. He was standing in knee deep water when a rogue wave hit him and slammed him down onto the beach.
It was only about 6’ high. It broke his back. After several surgeries he was able to walk with a cane.

10 posted on 12/29/2023 6:03:40 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: Dan in Wichita
"Democrats, through their media whores, will blame this wave on capitalism and climate change Trump.

He's incited an inundation!

11 posted on 12/29/2023 6:12:14 AM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: V_TWIN

California is sinking they better run


12 posted on 12/29/2023 6:42:37 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: V_TWIN

It wasn’t a rouge wave? I’m shocked.


13 posted on 12/29/2023 6:43:16 AM PST by Disambiguator
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To: V_TWIN

Run!


14 posted on 12/29/2023 6:45:04 AM PST by Nateman (If the Pedo Profit Mad Moe (pig pee upon him!) was not the Antichrist then he comes in second.)
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To: Vaquero; Rennes Templar; Red Badger; golux
Blame Sue Nomi.

Obviously a relative of Klaus.

Talk about timing!

You don't own me

15 posted on 12/29/2023 6:48:05 AM PST by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man)
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A Rouge Wave in California?

Praise the Lord! A Christmas Miracle!!!!!.....................


16 posted on 12/29/2023 6:51:31 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while l aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: V_TWIN

I can tell YOU have never been in a rouge wave.

I lived through one - ran as fast as I could (had a buddy with me) and we fortunately jumped onto a 30’ long 3’ diameter log ‘drift wood’ and the ocean water went 200’ past us. This happened at 10:00 PM at night with a full moon...

Just south of us two old ladies were walking on the beach after watching a movie. They were not aware of the ocean — nor could they have outrun the rouge wave — and they drowned brutally.

Don’t be so smug next time, FRiend...


17 posted on 12/29/2023 7:04:43 AM PST by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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To: BBB333

a rouge wave? 🤔


18 posted on 12/29/2023 7:21:12 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: MayflowerMadam

No. But related to Pyroclastic Flo.


19 posted on 12/29/2023 7:24:32 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: Vaquero

God hates California. God hates Ventura for removing Fr. Serra’s Statue at the behest of some Santa Barbara students and a few radical Chumash Tribe members (Many supported Saint Serra).


20 posted on 12/29/2023 7:37:17 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade ( Ride to the sound of the Guns!)
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