Massive waves, flooding pummel West Coast

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Published 2023-12-29

Powerful winter storms in the Pacific Ocean whipped up dangerous surf along the entire West Coast, putting nearly five million residents under a high surf warning. In Ventura, California, video captured the moment a huge wave breached a seawall and sent eight people to the hospital. Lee Cowan reports.

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All Comments (21)

@underthetornado 5 months ago

When you live at the beach expect flooding sometimes.😅
@coreydo737 5 months ago

Mother nature reclaiming what is hers
@napsam71 5 months ago

"This is an atrosity!" - Jeff Jones. It's pretty clear Jeff Jones has had a very easy life.🙄
@L.Fontein7 5 months ago

I live on the Gulf Coast of Florida. Luckily I'm a few miles inland. But it always amazes me like this one guy here that was interviewed when people who live directly on the beach are shocked, upset, and appalled when their home gets pummeled by waves, flooded, and damaged. Seriously? I mean it's nature, at some point it was going to happen.
@saint6563 5 months ago

"This is an atrocity": That people are so stupid as to build on a coastline + be surprised by the damage done. Pathetic.
@chairmankaga2821 5 months ago

These people have the same mindset as the people living next to a river that routinely floods. They act all surprised when it happens...again.
@kristensorensen2219 5 months ago

Some folks built too close to the Pacific!!😮
@jdubmash 5 months ago

Just keep building right on the coastline... HAHAHAHA
@TSA1D1 5 months ago

She's Speaking 🌬🌊☔️🗺
@lmena5696 5 months ago

I need to say that I am astounded that this rich man would say that waves hitting his home is an atrocity. atrocity is an intentional cruel act. He is saying that Mother Nature committed an atrocity against him just because he chose to put a home in a place that could be expected to be hit by waves at some point or other? I suppose it would be considered an atrocity if the real estate and seller people told him this was the safest place ever to live. That would be an atrocious lie. Maybe he just doesn't know his adjectives, but I would hate to have someone like him for an employer.
@pillznarRy 5 months ago

BREAKING NEWS!!!! WATER does what WATER DOES and PEOPLE ARE MAD ABOUT IT!!!!! BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!
@jjohnson5014 5 months ago

Uh oh, insurance premiums going up!
@bobl6139 5 months ago

There’s a reason that all the newer hotels in Pacifica on rock away beach put all rooms on the second floor and garages on the first
@simon6071 5 months ago

Beware! Electric vehicles flooded or damaged by sea water may catch fire unexpectedly.
@bergenwhitney 5 months ago

Man I dream of having a beach house. But not as a primary residence 😂
@ruthresetar5940 5 months ago

You cannot outrun the power of the ocean.
@johnharris6655 5 months ago

Down in Half Moon Bay there is a beach that get's waves like this all the time.
@ginaverdi6101 5 months ago

No match for mother nature! Hope everyone is safe and out of harms way!!
@kristy9337 5 months ago

Water always wins.
@luiul1 5 months ago

i looked at a map. california is right next to the ocean. obvious much? why did they put california so close to the ocean? DUH i'm gonna have to think of everything?