Extraordinary Storm Sites of Oregon Coast on Video

Published 02/01/21 at 6:56 PM PDT
By Oregon Coast Beach Connection staff

(Oregon Coast) – There's little that matches the stunning factor of major storm action on the Oregon coast. When the air and water gets whipped into a particular level of frenzy, all the stops are pulled, the gloves come off and all bets are on for a spectacular show.

Lucky for us humans we now have video to document these wanton, chaotically gorgeous moments. Here's some examples.

The cliffs are over 80 feet high, leaving those waves well over 120 feet high as they fire upwards. Even from the dry safety of the viewing building, these giants tower far above people's heads. It's awe-inspiring and yet humbling at the same time. This place makes you feel insignificant.

Farther down the Oregon coast, Bandon is no shirker to wild sights either. All those sea stacks huddled close together – either near famed Face Rock or elsewhere – create a myriad of barriers for the angry storm systems of this region. White caps seem to form out of nowhere up against the darker rock spires. Massive waves try desperately to top the barriers but rarely succeed and instead create watery explosions.

Way up in Tillamook County (Tillamook Coast) on the north Oregon coast, the rocky islands aren't as plentiful as down south, but when storms get their grips on them it's a rarer treat. People aren't used to that. Especially at Rockaway Beach, where famed Twin Rocks normally sit a ways offshore in a fairly mellow state. It takes especially large breakers to make a scene here, but when they do it's eye-popping.

At Seaside, there are no rock monuments offshore, just flat beach and tideline. So it takes a lot of drama to make an impression here, and when storms manage this it's rather unique. The breakers are usually some 1,000 feet away from the Prom, so when they come up close to the Turnaround it's a main event. One thing that beach excels at is that weird, lightning-fast marauding sand that's propelled by high winds.

Or, as in this video from Seaside Aquarium, you see gigantic blobs of sea foam mixed with rough seas, making it a bizarre kind of washing machine scene on a massive scale.

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