Only in Dreams

I was down in Oceanside at a testing center that helps you study for the MCAT. The Center was located about 15 minute walk from the beach and it was situated up on a hill near a pathway/bikeway that went down to the beachfront. I had my backpack with books in it and I decided to walk down the trail. The sets were coming in that glowing aquamarine color as the sun hit through them. Some were at least 20 feet high. Way too high for me anyway. I walked down and just watched the surfers catch wave after wave wishing I could be out there too. I contemplated setting my backpack down and jumping in but I didn't want to chance losing my MCAT books and laptop. I was down there for a decent amount of time and then it seems like everyone was showing up. I walked up near a boardwalk type area and overheard some people talking about the Gustins. I mentioned, "Hey I know Paul and Alan. They live right by me!" Just then I turned around to see where they had some sort of security screening checkpoint with tables set up. Hundreds of people stood behind waiting to get patted down. Then they would give you a waterproof sticker that stuck onto your hand. Just in the front of the line I saw Jeff H and some Gustins. They had come out to surf. I started to walk away, worried that the security people would notice that I didn't have a sticker. But it was only because I got there before they started doing the pat-downs. I didn't want to have to go to the back of the line/crowd full of thousands of people. I started to walk a bit away from that part of the beach. The waves were sort of smaller down where I was and there were less surfers. Every now and then a huge set would come in and tons of surfers would just bail. These sets gradually started coming in closer and closer and with such force that I had to back up towards the boardwalk. Suddenly waves 100 feet high started pummeling the area with the security checks. People were getting thrown back into the street and buildings wave after wave. I started scrambling to the cliff face/hill as the smaller waves near me started to do the same. I got tossed around a bit by some white water but because I was so far inland already I didn't lose my footing. The scripture came to mind in D&C 88:90 where it states "...and the voice of the waves of the sea heaving themselves beyond their bounds." I made it higher to a road at the top of the cliff area overlooking the ocean. Below lay hundreds of bodies of people washed up on the shore from the waves. Sand and debris had washed up over the train track. I took a picture with my small point-n-click and moved down to take another picture. Some guy was yelling at someone else that he shouldn't be taking a picture but he didn't care and neither did I. I started walking my way back towards the testing center. I had to jump over some trains that had stopped and make my way down some unfamiliar streets but eventually I got back. It turns out that the front of the testing center was a bike shop and some people were already in buying bikes to get out of the city. I went back to my bike which was locked outside and Kelsey showed up in her Escalade. We started talking and I was thinking that I needed to tell her about the Tsunami I had just witnessed but I didn't want to interrupt. I knew that I needed to unlock my bike so I was working really hard to get that done. We needed to get out of there before things got any more hectic.