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![]() “We had a house, I don’t know what its former address was, but it is now right in the middle of Benson Avenue,” she said. The homes and cottages along or behind the beach also were badly damaged, according to Sharon Ahearn, who is the chief of staff for Westerly, R.I. “My initial reaction, when I first went down there?” said Caswell Cooke, owner of the Seafood Haven restaurant at the east end of Atlantic Avenue, near the Weekapaug Breachway. Atlantic Avenue, the beach thoroughfare over which excavators are clearing a path for construction equipment, has the feel of a battle fought in a desert. The beach on which businesses and homes sat has been carved away or plowed inland in drifts four or five feet high over Atlantic Avenue.Īcres of sand where umbrellas were staked has been scoured away in places, exposing truckloads of ankle-breaking rubble dumped over decades to check erosion on what is a barrier island. ![]() Nightclubs, hotels and restaurants where generations of beach goers feasted on lobster and danced away long summer nights is battered into wreckage. ![]() The powerful wind and historic tides generated by Sandy may have irrevocably changed the long strip of sand at the center of beach life for much of southern New England.
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