Walking down towards Shinnecock Inlet from Ponquogue Beach...
The beach starts to narrow down the closer you get to the Inlet rock jetties. The ocean has removed a great amount of sand and also washed away the protecting dunes just west of the jetty.
Army corp of engineering is getting ready to replenish the beach sand there by dredging sand from the bay. There are restaurants and a deep sea ocean fishing fleet where the damage has accrued.
It takes years and even centuries to build up the dunes protecting the barrier beaches and but one storm to make swiss cheese of them.