C'mon. Check with the local surfers. It was probably the 7th set of some big waves.
Cowabunga Dude....
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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I've always been a big fan of rogue waves.
Unexpected! Never boring, Always surprising.
On a Day like Today...
“and they drowned brutally.”
Terrible! I remember a news story from a few years ago. A mother and her small child were walking on the beach in the Outer Banks. They were swept away by a wave!
Obviously the woman would not have been doing that if she had thought there was any danger at all.
I got pulled down flat on my back at Rockaway Beach (NY) years ago. The water was just over my ankles, but it was a though hands grabbed me and pulled me down. That was really a lesson to me!
Rockaway is very rough, people drown there every year.
Nature doesn’t care about you folks, not one little bit.
C'mon. Check with the local surfers. It was probably the 7th set of some big waves.
Cowabunga Dude....
It wasn't the first one ever, won't be the last one ever. This news story is being hyped for the climate alarmist agenda instead of the natural phenomenon it is.
From the beginning of time, we have been warned to respect the power and unpredictability of the ocean. The ocean always wins.
A rouge wave?
A tranny 5k.
Now if USC had been playing Tulane, that would truly be a colorful Christmas story.
With that said, if ever their was a picture that needed to be titled
“You NEVER want to turn your back on the ocean.”
That IS the truth! I did once ...just once.
When I was a young teenager a buddy and I were at the beach body surfing on a dropping tide. There was a section of steel ship deck sticking out of the sand tilted upward with a rusted metal railing at the top. The railing was perpendicular to the beach and waves. When the water was low enough we went over to the deck and hung off the back of the railing allowing the waves to hit us, as they came up, off the deck, to see if we could hold on to the railing. When the tide dropped we went around to the seaward side so we would get a splash effect from the smaller waves which had broken farther out.
The waves quieted down to the point we could see the sand in front of the deck.
It seemed the game was over as the tide was so far out the waves didn’t even make it up to the railing. So, with no more waves I turned around facing the railing to take a look at shore. Withing seconds I was slammed from behind. I flew up the deck, right into the railing. Thankfully, I was still standing when I hit the railing. I hit it pretty hard but no broken bones. Because I hit square on the force was spread out from my stomach down. I hit the railing so hard the rust from a railing joint not only imprinted my shorts but went thru to my underwear.
The rust never washed out of either. Lesson learned.
Same morons who stand on jettys when there is a high surf advisory, and get swept off.
It’s too bad that surfers werebthe hardest hit instead of a drag show.
Really? When? That’s awful. I loved that statue. Been by it a gazillion times.
I grew up there in the 60s. I’ve seen many and they can be devastating. Saw one during the Ventura County fair take out a few rides.
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