in this case, a sand spit has formed off the end of this breakwater.wave tank shows how the sand spit built up. the waves strike the breakwater at an angle and bend around it into the harbor. when sand is added, the waves carry it into the harbor, where it builds into a spit behind the breakwater. to prevent the harbor from being sealed off and the beach beyond from being deprived of sand, engineers installed a dredge to pump the sand back into the longshore current by picking it up in the harbor and dumping it further down the coast. not only do beaches change continuously as sand is moved through them by the longshore current, but seasonal changes occur as well. the beaches change from season to season. by summertime, the waves are fairly low and gentle, and that has a tendency to drag sand towards the beach and build up the beach and make it broader, wider, and as it piles up, the sand has a fairly gentle slope. in the wintertime, though, the larger waves, more energetic waves, pick up that sand, tend to move it offshore, and store it in large sand

in our area because the breakwater from long island sound doesn't extend all the way to stonington a. we experienced 90-mile per hour wind gusts that coincided with high tide. andy kay offloading and physical destruction that actually exceeded the hurricanes in 1930 which the old timers always said was a high water mark in terms of bad weather in connecticut are kind of point i wanted to do share is that with these four events, again these communities along the shoreline and in the interior, every single time to first responders and local government has risen to the challenge in terms of making sure that immediate first responder issues were met, the 7525 reimbursement that comes from fema again, given the fact we've had competitive series of storms is really starting to affect the ability of these communities to maintain standard operations. so for example, the city of new london which is a very distressed municipality, again did everything they had to do in terms of protecting lives but they're now looking at a structural deficit that again, expenditure triggered that is now going t