The first 850 feet of the road runs behind dunes, making it especially vulnerable to overwash, Jakubik said.
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But he does more than write on the details of littoral drift, inlet dynamics, overwash processes and dune migration.
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"There was no major overwash and no infrastructure damage, " said Horne, who had left Tuesday night.
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On natural beaches, this overwash is a benign process, one way beaches retreat inland to defend themselves against rising sea levels.
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Mr . Middleton said the overwash buried one lane of Bald Head Wynd in sand and left the other lane a trail of cracked and broken asphalt.
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Two days of strong storm-driven swells resulted in a severe overwash of a roughly 700-foot-long stretch of Bald Head Wynd road late Monday.
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At Matunuck, Rhode Island, sediment studies have identified the overwash fan of sediments in Succotash Marsh, where the 1815 hurricane storm surge overtopped the barrier beach.
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President Clinton declared 50-mile-long Hatteras Island a disaster area and a National Guard convoy ferried meals to the island before ocean overwash forced them to turn back.
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In the early morning hours of November 2, high seas began to overwash Hatteras Island, " completely covering all dry land except the position of the fort itself ".
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The convoy braved ocean overwash and 4-foot-deep sand to deliver 3, 700 ready-to-eat meals to three fire stations north of Avon before turning back.
