I was watching one in Galveston a few years back, awesome sight. As I sat there in my car watching it I finally realized what I was doing, sitting in a CAR watching a water spout headed toward the beach a little ways in front of me. Needless to say, I vacated the area. I later heard it had damaged some of the cars parked along the beach, tossing a couple of them into the street but none of the folks on the beach were injured.