The Weather Network insert videos shows a rogue wave in Miami. That was Sep 30th. Six people were injured when people were swept off the boardwalk, into the waves and some of them over the fence into the rock wall and down to the water below. I found the twitter video which doesn't have the ads, etc. HERE
There's a lot in Wikipedia on Rogue Waves. The one that changed it all was the Draupner wave.
"The Draupner wave (or New Year's wave) was the first rogue wave to be detected by a measuring instrument. The wave was recorded in 1995 at Unit E of the Draupner platform, a gas pipeline support complex located in the North Sea about 160 kilometres (100 mi) southwest from the southern tip of Norway.
The rig was built to withstand a calculated 1-in-10,000-years wave with a predicted height of 20 metres (64 ft) and was fitted with a state-of-the-art set of sensors, including a laser rangefinder wave recorder on the platform's underside. At 3 pm on 1 January 1995, the device recorded a rogue wave with a maximum wave height of 25.6 metres (84 ft). Peak elevation above still water level was 18.5 metres (61 ft).The reading was confirmed by the other sensors.The platform sustained minor damage in the event.
In the area, the significant wave height was approximately 12 metres (39 ft), so the Draupner wave was more than twice as tall and steep as its neighbors, with characteristics that fell outside any known wave model. The wave caused enormous interest in the scientific community."
The causes of rogue waves is still under active research. And there are now measurement devices to capture the size. How high can they get? 130 feet high in the eyeball. In 2006, researchers from U.S. Naval Institute theorised rogue waves may be responsible for the unexplained loss of low-flying aircraft, such as U.S. Coast Guard helicopters during search and rescue missions.In 2019, Hurricane Dorian's extratropical remnant generated a 30-metre (100 ft) rogue wave off the coast of Newfoundland.
These seem unimaginable, but here we are now with cameras that are capturing the extent of the waves. For example, it is theorized that the SS Edmund Fitzgerald (1975) – Lost on Lake Superior was sunk by a rogue wave. Another nearby ship, the SS Arthur M. Anderson, was hit at a similar time by two rogue waves and possibly a third, and this appeared to coincide with the sinking around ten minutes later.
