That's IT !!? BFD !
Worse waves (thousands of them) pounded DAUPHIN ISLAND, ALABAMA during the last hurricane. Where was the UN outrage over the Thai / Indian / Burmese stinginess then ?
Yep, that's about it, a twenty foot wave with no backslope, no trough and no break until it gets to First Avenue. That's the thing that erased Valdez from the land on the Good Friday earthquake like living in the muzzle of a shotgun. We don't appreciate the strength of kinetic energy.
They weren't worse waves. Or the damage on Dauphin Island would have been worse.
A 20 foot tsunami wave is a totally different animal from a 20 foot wind wave.
You don't know what you're talking about.
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