. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Wind AND TAKE A BITE The Bible warns people not to build a house upon the sand. The seventh chapter of Matthew reads: "The rains came down, the floods rose, the winds blew and beat upon that house and it collapsed. And the wreck of it was ; But people ignore this advice. Lured by the beauty of the sea and the beach, people perch their houses and hotels near the ocean's sandy edge. But on the first of January 1987 the rains did come, the ocean did rise and the winds did blow. These forces
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Wind AND TAKE A BITE The Bible warns people not to build a house upon the sand. The seventh chapter of Matthew reads: "The rains came down, the floods rose, the winds blew and beat upon that house and it collapsed. And the wreck of it was ; But people ignore this advice. Lured by the beauty of the sea and the beach, people perch their houses and hotels near the ocean's sandy edge. But on the first of January 1987 the rains did come, the ocean did rise and the winds did blow. These forces beat upon the houses of coastal North Carolina. And one Long Beach residence collapsed; it was a complete wreck. The Jan. 1 northeaster was a harsh reminder of this. biblical parable. At Long, Kure, Carolina and Topsail beaches, the northeaster's lashing waves licked up vast quantities of beach sand, undermined the foundations of some houses and tore away the stairways, dune walks, porches and ground-floor walls of other ocean- front dwellings. It was erosion at its worst. Winter northeasters are notorious for hurling their erosive forces at the North Carolina coast. In fact, in recent years these storms have been more destructive than hurricanes, says Sea Grant researcher John Fisher, a civil engineer at State University. As part of the Sea Grant research project. Fisher and another NCSU civil engineer, Margery Overton, are studying the effects of winter storms on dunes. When the study is complete, the team will be able to plug information about a dune's size and a storm's in- tensity into a computer model and estimate the amount of dune erosion expected from a storm. Fisher says dune erosion is based on several factors—the height of the tide, the magnitude of the waves, the size of the dune and the amount of dune vegetation. The New Year's Day northeaster arrived on an astronomical high tide. The sun, moon and earth were aligned so that their gravitational effects com
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