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. As the waters suddenly flooded an observation area, both people and vehicles were instantly swept away. The raging waters destroyed the windows of nearby beachfront buildings and hotels on its destructive path. Beachgoers were seen frantically running for their lives.
KTLA’s Chris Wolfe reports on Dec. 28, 2023.
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People in Japan call it a tsunami. They just had 21 earthquakes.
Fn hilarious
Lol
Okay we got some progress here cleaning things up in California finally. I like these waves. Mother nature can you please send more of these waves to wash away the homeless issue and take Gavin newsom with you on the next one as well?
oh and also all the woke liberals…. bigger waves please this is great for California
Yall news people didn't see this coming?
So we can expect the big one to come soon, causing a earthquake
What caused this wave? Underwater Earthquake ?
Underwater volcano?
Darwin Award runner-ups!
Run liberals run! Lol
Normal people: wow thats crazy
CP connoisseurs: Climate Change!
I wish Law Enforcements was this fast at arresting most of The Senators 🤦
This was probably the first warning to that earthquake in Japan that happened on new year's eve maybe? 🤔
Ok… but did they get gender neutral toys?
S e c u r i t y c a m e r a…….
the most dangerous thing was the guy in the car who literally watched a man submerged right infront of him & still attempted to keep driving
California is about to be destroyed by the pacific ocean.
dose are not victims there waste of tax payers money
Jesus coming soon.
Thus should have been a story about how those who ignore weather warnings put themselves in danger, but instead the reporters are clueless.
Was there visual cues that this was about to happen?
In summer 1997, i was in the army, stationed at Schofield Barracks, Oahu, Hawaii. We went on a field training exercise for 2 weeks at Makua Valley, on the north shore. The camp site was in a clearing behind the highway, that was set on the edge of a very high cliff overlooking a short beach. Normally there is good surfing here. The winds were the most ferocious I've ever seen in my life anywhere in the world. They caused intense waves on the beach. The repeated waves were over 50 yards high, and were beginning to flood the highway, which they had to close. The campsite was damaged, and we had to investigate the size of the waves, so me and a sergeant went to the cliff to witness it for our report, and we were scared shitless on the size of the waves. They just popped up suddenly, grew in height quickly, slammed into the cliff, and the height of the wave was actually over the height of the cliff, which we knew was about 50 yards high from the surface of the beach. We were in serious danger in this position. We ran very fast, but we were hit by the wave and we fell. The water wasn't extremely deep, but it washed inland a few hundred yards. We were hospitalized with minor injuries and were released in a few days. The winds were so powerful that we couldnt even put our camouflage netting up, because it was too difficult to control the netting, and dangerous, because we kept being pulled and falling. One of my platoon-mates was in his tent at night and he got scooped up by the wind and flew over 30 yards up and 200 yards away and crashed. Thankfully the tent also acted like a parachute on the way down, so he wasnt killed. He broke his leg though. We were eventually ordered out of the area and were sent to the Kahukus where the wind wasnt bad.
The artillery unit was shooting live rounds into a hill about a half mile away from our campsite. The winds started a huge brush fire, and they had to call in water-carrying helicopters to put out the blaze. They had some kind of large pouch under the chopper that could be filled with water then dropped on the fire. Luckily, the nearby ocean was a great source of water, but the winds made it difficult for the helicopter to fly, and it almost crashed a few times. Sometimes, the water pouch would be tossed and emptied while airborne. Dumping the water was useless because the water just became vapor, spread all over the place by the wind. Luckily, the fire was put out, but it took several hours to complete it.
The event was so crazy that we even came up with a marching cadence song in the tune of Disney's The Lion King "Hakuna Matata," named after Makua Valley.
Makua Valley
What a horrible place
Makua Valley
Wind blows off your face
It blows away your worries
For the rest of your days
Just a little breeze
Don't mean much to me
Makua Valley
Even the ocean hates California 🤔
Only a fool builds their property on sand and in places where wildfires spread. 👏
A UAP shot out of the water too close to land.
Isn't this aftershocks from Japans earthquakes, Tsunami incoming. 😢
Japan had a earthquake. Wonder if these are rogue races or underground earthquake waves
Yo, where were the warnings posted? I was thinking about going to the beach ignorantly, and im positive im not the only one who doesn't watch mainsteam media regularly.
I thought Rogue Wave was a rapper
Every time the waiter tells me not to touch the plate because it is hot. I touch the plate.
…silly humans.
😂
Mess around and find out….😂😂
They better put some respeck on that ocean name
Sources say that approx. $100K in improvements have resulted from the rogue wave !