A family visiting a beach in the US may have been swallowed up by a dangerous “sneaker wave”, leaving a young girl dead and her brother missing.
A family visiting from Portland had been storm-watching on the remote beach Saturday when a powerful wave caught them by surprise, sweeping the father, his four-year-old son and his seven-year-old daughter into the surf.The boy’s body has not been found, and the U.S. Coast Guard has stopped searching for him.Lola Stiles died and the body of her younger brother William has not been found. Picture: GoFundMe“It’s a dangerous beach.
In most areas, the beach is flanked by steep bluffs or rocky outcroppings that make it hard to run away. King tides occur when the sun and moon line up and their combined gravity makes the tides much higher and much lower than normal. They can cause flooding and inundate normally dry beaches.
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