Among them were Ed and Nancy Bemis, who heard waves crashing and rolling underneath their home, which sits on stilts.
We were staying a block from the beach, and could watch the waves crashing on the rocks as we looked out the front windows.
Saturday morning's high tide sent waves crashing into closed roads along the seacoast, local police said, but there were no reports of significant damage.
Or the carrier might see a video of six-foot waves crashing into the Carolina coast and use that to develop a model for likely damages.
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The wind rushes along the footpath before them, muting the gentle snapping sound of their sails and of the waves crashing against the cliff face 200 metres below.
In the streets in the afternoon, on party buses at night, or in clubs that pulse until the early hours, hips sway as naturally as waves crashing against the shore of the nearby coast.
Once there, a seaside picnic costs no more than the price of a fresh crusty baguette and a hunk of gooey Camembert, but the sublime feeling of the sun on your face and the sound of the waves crashing nearby is what dreams are made of.
But as tourism to the neighbouring city of Santa Marta increased, backpackers discovered Taganga, and soon the number of gringos began to compete with the number of locals, dive shops opened up all over town, and the sound of thumping reggaeton began drowning out the sound of waves crashing against the shore throughout night.
Resort pioneer James Baillie opened Southern Ocean Lodge four years ago offering dramatic but low impact on the environment architecture and equally dramatic views of the surrounding cliffs and waves crashing ashore. (Riding those waves while I was there assorted dolphins.) All rooms face those ocean views, which become almost mesmerizing in winter, with storms rolling in as you sit by the living room fireplace staring out.
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Volkswagen vans clog parking lots near the beach as their owners, paunchy middle-aged surfers, gaze out over the crashing waves.
The evening ends with the liberating sensation of sleeping on the sands of the Wattamolla lagoon, with the sounds of a waterfall and the crashing waves of the sea nearby.
But the first night I slept 12 hours straight, thanks to the combination of freshly ironed sheets, a mahogany canopy bed and the sound of the crashing waves outside.
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Mass tourism has been slow to discover Bulgaria's rugged north coast, home to few beaches but a long stretch of triumphant limestone cliffs popular with Bulgarian rock-climbers who leap into the crashing waves below.
Try not to look down at the crashing waves as you gingerly climb the vertiginous steps that cut into the face of Skellig Michael, an uninhabited Unesco World Heritage-listed monastic settlement that was established sometime between the 6th and 8th Centuries.
They carried takeout coffees, walked their dogs, and took pictures of one another standing in front of the crashing East River waves with their cellphones.
In 1979 a force-ten gale struck unexpectedly in the waters off Fastnet, crashing 40-foot waves over small vessels.
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