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u/CaseFace5 Aug 03 '26
The relief I felt when I saw the kid and the little weenie dog safe on the bank.
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u/femanonette Aug 02 '26
Not rogue at all. The parts of the beach without rooted plants tell you exactly where to expect the water's edge at high tide;, hell the completely flat wet sand gives away that water sits there. This is just the tide coming in.
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u/Zakluor Aug 02 '26
If people are around but you see no tracks in the smooth sand, there's a good chance some waves are making it onto the beach.
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u/mercurial9 Aug 03 '26
Idk if I’ve misunderstood your comment, but the tide does NOT come in this quickly.
This is swell-related. Tidal movements affect this kind of thing but when someone says “the tide is coming in” this is not what it looks like
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u/MamaJa2016 25d ago
I live close to the Bay of Fundy, and I agree. It doesn’t rush in that fast. Even a tidal
Bore is calmer.
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u/Johnny_Poppyseed 29d ago
Lol is no one gonna mention this guys absolutely ridiculously bored sounding cadence of speech? Even when running for his life lmao
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u/thisFishSmellsAboutD 29d ago
Hey look, a broad stretch of really wet sand with fresh puddles... Let's walk all the way to the water's edge. With kids and small dogs, who are famously good at swimming against strong currents in choppy waves.
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u/Bluntbutnotonpurpose Aug 02 '26
First time I heard about rogue waves was when I watched Deadliest Catch. First I thought they were exaggerating. Boy, was I wrong. Rogue waves are absolutely terrifying.
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u/bigheadasian1998 29d ago
Let me take a wild guess on what that sign says “Danger, stay the fuck away”
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u/TheCloudTamer Aug 02 '26
Filming in preparation, and everyone knows to run. My guess this is tidal, and probably happens regularly.
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u/EndTimesNigh Aug 02 '26
How would one single wave suddenly emerge, perfectly predictably? The tide is of course predictable, but this one wave?
And there was someone with a doggo running directly toward the wave, apparently she didn't get the memo of this one big ass tidal coming in at this exact moment..?
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u/TheCloudTamer Aug 02 '26 edited Aug 02 '26
If there is a funnel in the landscape, or something like a rock wall that can create interference patterns or block backwash, then it doesn’t seem unlikely that if you wait long enough at the correct tide you will see “freak” waves.
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u/Mighty_Mighty_Moose 24d ago
Nothing rogue about it, tidal surge sure. Rogue waves usually refer to a large, but more importantly, out of time wave that that catches vessels at a bad period of their roll.
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u/royonquadra Aug 02 '26
Tide's out.
Tide's in.
Wow, that happened quickly!