The Moonraker restaurant is located in the Best Western hotel
Moonracker restaurant's banquet hall is now stripped of its carpet as dehumidifiers run to get out any excess water.
"Initially it broke the window and then a bunch of water came through and then more water piled through again and that's a huge wave," said Gary McNamara, one of the owners of the Moonraker restaurant.
He said, "The windows shattered. I mean glass just went everywhere and the room filled up with water pretty quickly."
Moonracker surveillance video screen capture
"I don't know if it was from the wind or a rock came through the window, so we went to our surveillance camera and pulled the footage back up and obviously it was something more serious than that," McNamara said.
The surveillance video captured a rogue wave that came up over the breakers and straight into and through the restaurant's first floor windows.
McNamara said, "I've seen how big the waves get out here they crash at the sea wall. But that's concerning, it has a clear 30-40 feet of concrete."
He says the damage is estimated to cost anywhere between $10,000 and $15,000.
The windows are now boarded up
The good news is the waves crashed into the first floor around 5:15 a.m., so no one was inside at the time.
This seems incredibly odd to me. It was my understanding that rogue waves need very deep oceans to form, and I have never heard of one reaching the shoreline with enough force to do something like this.
Sounds more like a small tsunami to me.