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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Never been a fan of beaches that allow vehicles.
We must stop all undersea landslides. Take the bus and eat ze bugs.
No photos or vids at the link…documentation for the story lacking.
When undersea landslides are outlawed, only outlaws will have undersea landslides.... ;-)
It’s those gas stoves and hot water heaters
“I saw this huge wall of white water,” Whitey strikes again. When’s a brother ever gonna get a break?
July 5th.....yep, fake news.
that used to be where the daytona races happened. on the beach
Surf‘s up!
Bummer..should have hit Manhattan.
Why is this post ?
Should post an Ocala Star Banner column from 2019, referencing a 1920 article about the threat of Bubonic Plague in rats. Knowing that the importance of zoonotic diseases is under~emphasized, why? Why?
Lightning strikes kill, news at 11.
Seriously? Stupid stunt.
That looks like a 77 Chevy Monte Carlo.
Too bad there wasn’t a red tide at the same time.
Then they would have had a rouge rogue wave.
(Okay, I’m making fun of a commonly seen misspelling of “rogue.”)
Dumb ass. 30 years ago.
What's so stupid about it?
It's just weird history that was never widely reported.
I know it happened over 30 years ago, but it is one of those stories, that were never widely reported.
Filler for a slow news day? Covering for the Bidens?
We know that AP is staffed by idiots, but I could do without constant reminders.
“The freak wave, estimated at 27 miles long and 250 feet wide, apparently was caused by shifting sands from an underwater landslide, said Frank Baldwin, a senior seismologist for the U.S. Geological Survey in Washington, D.C.
Authorities ruled out a tidal wave, and no seismic activity was recorded in the Atlantic Ocean at the time, Baldwin said. A weather service meteorologist said it wasn’t weather-related.”
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