California Big Surf Ocean Winter Storm, Huge Waves in Southern California in December

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A record year for hurricanes and tropical storms, some of which made landfall on US coastlines.

In December an unusually big northern swell caused huge waves to hit California's coast.

Famous Venice Beach got some of the biggest waves ever seen here. Pounding waves, as high as 25-feet tall, flooded the beach and caused a small part of the Venice Fishing Pier to fall into the ocean. See the Photo Gallery