[V_TWIN]

From Wiki:

“Rogue waves are unusually large, unpredictable, and suddenly appearing surface waves that can be extremely dangerous to ships, even to large ones.”

In Daytona one time for a nascar race, on the way to the track we kept seeing tow trucks carrying cars that were covered in sand. A LOT of ‘em.

Later that evening the local news reported a 14 foot rogue wave hit Daytona Beach.

They just come out of nowhere.

[Travis McGee]

[First, see above about wave set direction shift leading to "nodes and anti-nodes."]

"Optical rogue waves reveal insight into real ones"

[sport]

There was a restaurant near the beach years ago. This was at Daytona Beach. And the parking lot was next to the beach. When the diners who owned convertibles with the tops left down returned to their cars they found them full of water. It was later learned that a tidal wave as they were called then had hit.