[monday]

"She was running towards what looks like her husband and four kids. I would imagine the five of them are all gone. It’s just so sad."

Both the woman and her family did exactly the wrong thing. She should have run away to higher ground and her family would have been better off swimming out deeper and diving just before the wave hit letting it pass over their heads.

I expect you are right. They are dead.

[libravoter]

her family would have been better off swimming out deeper and diving just before the wave hit letting it pass over their heads.

Many people who survived the brunt of the wave died anyway when the wave sucked them so far out. The receding wave pulled anyone in the water hundreds of meters out to sea ... sort of like a rip tide except there's no way to escape it.

[patent]

>>>>Both the woman and her family did exactly the wrong thing. She should have run away to higher ground and her family would have been better off swimming out deeper and diving just before the wave hit letting it pass over their heads.

There is no way the family could have gotten out to deep enough water in time. No offense, but that's nonsense. Even at 20-30 mph, that wave would have overtaken them far before they got deep enough, and then it would have done exactly the same thing it did with them standing there, it would have driven them forward.

I don't have any idea where the woman could have made it to, as I don't know what's behind her, and whether there was high enough ground. Neither do you.

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[Raycpa]

Both the woman and her family did exactly the wrong thing. She should have run away to higher ground and her family would have been better off swimming out deeper and diving just before the wave hit letting it pass over their heads.

I suspect her family was drawn off shore when the water receded. They would not have had enough time to go out that far on their own and they seem to be heading toward shore. She probably went to meet them to help.