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25-Foot Backwash Wall Explodes in Laguna Beach as Hurricane Rachel Swell Floods Orange County (Video)
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25-Foot Backwash Wall Explodes in Laguna Beach as Hurricane Rachel Swell Floods Orange County (Video)

Surfer·Dashel Pierson·about 16 hours ago
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Southern California’s coastline is under siege from the ocean. New footage from Orange County shows what appears to be a roughly 25-foot wall of backwash and exploding water in Laguna Beach, created as Hurricane Rachel’s swell collides with an already abnormally elevated Pacific. Check out the video below: The video itself is billed as showing “25′ Backwash Waves and Flooding,” and the scene is spectacular: incoming swell reaches the shoreline, collides with returning water, and erupts upward into a towering, chaotic wall. “I’ve never seen anything like this ever,” Chris Monroe, aka BEEFS T.V. says. “The beach is gone. This parking lot is literally like a beach… it’s going to PCH!” See another angle of the massive wall of water, linked here , and below. View this post on Instagram To be clear, the National Weather Service is not forecasting 25-foot breaking surf across Orange County.…

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