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PostThu Jan 18, 2018 10:02 am 
Wish I had time to get away today. Pics or vids if you happen to get some. http://www.king5.com/mobile/article/news/local/30-foot-waves-possible-on-the-washington-coast/281-509071168

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PostThu Jan 18, 2018 11:03 am 
Thought about heading out but decided I'm not psyched enough to do the round trip drive in one day.

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PostThu Jan 18, 2018 2:49 pm 
The Westport buoy measured 32 foot waves at 4 am today

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PostThu Jan 18, 2018 2:58 pm 
Wow! http://komonews.com/news/local/flooding-reported-as-wash-coast-battered-by-gigantic-waves

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PostThu Jan 18, 2018 3:03 pm 
This is cool! Cape Kiwanda live beach cam Watch the waves crash over the top of the dome. I've been here. That dome is enormous. This is truly a amazing display of nature. https://capekiwandarvresort.com/Webcam.html

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PostThu Jan 18, 2018 3:10 pm 
Here's the webcam at Kalaloch. If you refresh it from time to time you can see all the water rushing in to redistribute the logjam in front of the lodge. And this one shows folks parking a little too close to the high tide line at Long Beach. ~z

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PostThu Jan 18, 2018 3:42 pm 
zephyr wrote:
Here's the webcam at Kalaloch. If you refresh it from time to time you can see all the water rushing in to redistribute the logjam in front of the lodge. And this one shows folks parking a little too close to the high tide line at Long Beach. ~z .
Wow! Thanks for the links Z. I screen grabbed some images from the Cape Kiwanda live feed. These are tame. I saw some twice the ferocity

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PostThu Jan 18, 2018 11:19 pm 
Flooding and property damage, 2 women injured by wave tossed log and one man swept out to sea and missing...I wonder how many people went surfing? http://komonews.com/news/local/gallery/flooding-reported-as-wash-coast-battered-by-gigantic-waves

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PostFri Jan 19, 2018 1:31 pm 
Most of the inshore buoys near the OR/WA coast peaked at a sig wave height of some 35ft or so. Now thats an average of large waves, so isolated max waves were probably around 60ft. Further offshore buoy 46005 hit 43 feet... isolated max waves could have been near 80. The big east coast storm of about 2 weeks ago... a Canadian buoy picked up a significant wave height of 56 feet... implying max isolated waves near 100 feet, one of the highest values I have ever seen. Theres great videos the last few days of breakers along the euro coasts from their latest big storms. breakers 50 feet at least.... maybe a few 75s. Winter oceans are not to be messed with lightly!

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PostSat Jan 20, 2018 5:12 pm 
Here's a good article in the Seattle Times on the recent impact of big waves along the coast. The video shows a particularly large wave catching several cars and onlookers off guard at Ocean Park. Quite a few cars got a saltwater immersion. ~z Quote: An offshore storm led to massive waves and flooding Thursday on the Washington and Oregon coasts. The National Weather Service recorded waves more than 30 feet tall near Aberdeen and near the mouth of the Columbia River. Drone photographer Joshua Wilkins caught it on a dramatic video he posted on YouTube.

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PostSat Jan 20, 2018 5:32 pm 
Great video, how stupid is it to drive into the receding water to park in a space that was just flooded? Sorry to read about the man who climbed over a sea wall and was washed out to sea. RIP.

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