Santa Barbara, like Santa Cruz, faces south.
If the wave came from the northwest, SB might skate by with no damage at all.
The wave would wrap in across Goleta Point and Rincon and make an amazing right-hander for anyone with the cojones enough to paddle out and try to surf it.
Which is why I didn't mention it. Yet Crescent City faces southwest and it got hit hard in 1964.
Diffraction is an amazing thing.