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Rogue Wave
I recall as a kid surfcasting in Marshfield during an incoming tide. 1-2 ft swells were common, the tide was 75% full (about 1 hr from Hightide it was windy out of the SW (offshore). As we stood along shoreline were noticed and heard the rumbble and crackle of the rocks underneath the water being sucked out at a tremendous undertow....we were amazed as the ocean seemed to just want to go outbound...1-2-5- -6 ft out from where it was....we pulled in our lines..and as we did we saw on the horizon a black/ grey wall of smooth water rising and dancing on the horizon(probably 1 mile out)...It was an incoming huge wave appx 25 ft -30 ft high!!
we scrambled off the beach as did everone else ...across 25-30 feet of dry sand to the stairs on Hartford Road and over the seawall....about 5 seconds latter the wave broke about 5 ft from the seawall and oversplashed wall as water ran down Hartford rd,,,,we ran to wall afterward to see towels coolers and tubes all going out to sea and the ocean as clam as before,,,this happened about 1966 or so never saw anything like it before or since
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