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Titanic Ocean Wave Brutalizes a Santa Barbara Restaurant
Today's special is sea bass with a side of briny water, broken glass, and screaming.
Moby Dick Restaurant, located way out on a pier in Santa Barbara, boasts on its website of "fresh food" and "big waves." This weekend, diners got to sample a bit of both as a huge ocean wave crashed through a window, possibly bringing with it a school of still-flapping mackerel.
The veracity of its embedded seafood aside – it at least contained some tasty plankton – a giant swell really did invite itself to breakfast, thanks to a nasty Pacific storm that practically looked like a hurricane. Local media site Noozhawk has the story: