On the barrier island of Brigantine, 50% of residents refused to evacuate, state officials said.
The city of Galveston is especially vulnerable, southeast of Houston on a barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico.
Hop the Tybee Island shuttle for a beach day on the laid-back barrier island, just 20 minutes from town.
"Storm vulnerability is made worse by ongoing wetland loss and barrier island erosion, " according to the U.S. Geological Survey Web site.
We had an extensive conversation about this and -- to see whether additional steps can be taken on this barrier island idea.
"The deadline has everyone's attention, " said Suzy Goldhirsch, president of the Fire Island Association, which represents businesses and homeowners on the 32-mile-long barrier island south of Long Island.
Galveston -- a city in which about 8, 000 people died in a 1900 hurricane -- is about 50 miles southeast of Houston on a barrier island 2 miles wide.
Still, the implications of the Rutgers project unnerve residents of Surf City, on Long Beach Island, where the map shows water pouring over nearly all of the barrier island's six municipalities with a 6-foot increase in sea levels.
Admiral Allen announced yesterday, for example, that, after a bunch of back-and-forth between state and federal experts, he is prepared to authorize moving forward with a portion of the idea for a barrier island that may stop some of the oil from coming ashore.
We thumbed our phones trying to getting a signal, exchanged texts and surfed Twitter for storm updates, both for our location in lower Westchester County in New York, and for the traditional summer stomping grounds of Beach Haven, New Jersey, a spot of barrier island off the pine barrens where my toes have met sand and salt since the 1960s.
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Harvey Cedars, a narrow spit of sand in the northern part of the barrier Long Beach Island, has been battling with oceanfront homeowners for years over permission to construct protective sand dunes.
One of the most farcical chapters took place on Amelia Island, the beautiful Atlantic barrier beach where I live, just across the St.
Heron Island, for example, is a speck of land on the Barrier Reef inhabited mostly by birds.
Aside from being the place to hop on the boat to Magnetic Island, it is also a popular departure point for diving courses on the Great Barrier Reef.
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She began her trip in Hawaii and island-hopped her way to Fiji then Australia, taking surf lessons, diving the Great Barrier Reef and visiting eucalyptus rainforests along the way.
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