Episode where boat is flipped over by a wave.

Was that the one with the red bathing suits?

Many years ago my family was sitting on the front porch of our vacation home at Cape May, New Jersey when water came pouring along the street in the direction from the beach. I don't know if it was fresh water or salt water. Decades later my mother talked about it and wondered whether that water going down the street from the beach could have been a tsunami.

I am pretty certain the water was not from a tsunami or any other large ocean wave.

There is a little ridge about 6 feet high running parallel to the shore near where our street, Windsor Ave., meets Beach Avenue which runs along the beach. So a wave of water coming from the ocean would have to run up the beach seveal feet above high tide level, across Beach Ave., and about 6 feet up the little ridge for even a few inches of water to spill over and run about a thousand feet along Windsor Ave past our house.

I think that anytime that we were at Cape May, it would probably have been beach season and hundeds and thousands of people would have been at the beach during most of the daylight hours. A wave large enough to run up the beach and overtop the little ridge while people were at the beach would be a famous disaster in Cape May history, more so than the fires in 1869 and 1878, the hurricane of 1944, or the noreaster of 1962.

And that is why I asked about the Baywatch episode.

In the Baywatch episode the boat was a large cabin cruiser type boat and it was flipped over upside down by a large wave about ten feet high a few miles out and several characters were trappped in air pockets inside the boat.

I also remember that the wave was described as a tsunami. But I don't remember any scenes where the tsunami hit the beach, and some of the lifeguards got to be heroes, or any scenes where wreckage, debris, and bodies from Los Angeles were floating in the water, or any mention of a tsunami striking.

So why didn't the alleged tsunami devastate the shores of Los Angeles?