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As Hurricane Irene approached Long Island last weekend, a group of Napeague homeowners—and a fair number of random passersby—undertook an effort to stop the storm-driven seas from flooding into their neighborhood.
On Friday afternoon, a couple of dozen homeowners and several other local residents and visitors built a wall of sandbags, 450 in all, across the access cut through the dunes at the end of Atlantic Drive.
“It was a fantastic thing, such a coming together,” said Marine Satinsky, who lives in the low-lying shorefront neighborhood and helped with the sandbagging. “There were people from Springs there helping, people’s houseguests from out of town. People wanted to be a part of helping out, I think.”
It was the second time in as many years that the neighborhood undertook the effort, which was organized... more
On Friday afternoon, a couple of dozen homeowners and several other local residents and visitors built a wall of sandbags, 450 in all, across the access cut through the dunes at the end of Atlantic Drive.
“It was a fantastic thing, such a coming together,” said Marine Satinsky, who lives in the low-lying shorefront neighborhood and helped with the sandbagging. “There were people from Springs there helping, people’s houseguests from out of town. People wanted to be a part of helping out, I think.”
It was the second time in as many years that the neighborhood undertook the effort, which was organized... more
