Here are some of the things I have either heard of from people there or watched on TV:
Ocean Waves going into restaurants and blowing out windows in Capitola which is next to Santa Cruz California.
Cars thrown up from the paved road closest to the ocean onto Pebble Beach Golf Courses.
The Lone Cypress which is 150 feet above the ocean almost completely obscured by spray and foam during the storm. Homes all along the Northern California Coast damaged or destroyed by the storm.
Roads along the ocean damaged or destroyed partially or completely by the storm from Big Sur North up through San Francisco.
I have seen seaweed before in many homes near where I live from previous storms. I have seen it up against their front doors. I have seen personally people surf on 35 foot waves near where I live but most of the things I am writing about here I have never seen before.
Why?
Heavy winds and 25 foot waves and high tide combined with flooding coming down rivers combining together which created maybe the worst ocean and river disaster on the north coast we have ever seen likely in my lifetime. And combine this with winds at least 60 miles per hour and you have a disaster people have never seen before here likely in their lifetimes along the California coast.
Although it is also true that the ocean levels are constantly rising which also contributes to more and more damage along the coast during storms too, especially at high tide.
I think the following is an Instagram video:
One of the most amazing videos I have seen so far is of people running from a wave on one of the Pebble Beach Golf Courses as the wave inundates their golf Cart. But they survived the wave coming onto the golf course because they were able to send the video online.
Another video is you see this man walk by on the porch of his house and then you see a wave completely inundate where the man had just been.
I think this video is on Instagram. My daughter tells me you cannot see this one video without an Instagram account.
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