Most of this work was done immediately after Hurricane Bob which in 1992 had opened an inlet through the beach.
A new dam was built here soon after Hurricane Bob caused severe damage to the older structure in 1985.
And the driving rains from Hurricane Bob fell in all the wrong places.
Along the coast, damage was worse than that caused by Hurricane Bob two months prior.
The memory of Hurricane Bob, she said, would probably soon fade.
And then Hurricane Bob dumped seven inches of rain on their fields in less than 48 hours.
Hurricane Bob began to wind down late Monday, when it became a tropical storm.
Hurricane Bob inflicted $20 million in damages and caused five indirect deaths.
"For Hurricane Bob we had hundreds of people in the school, but no way to even make warm coffee."
Hurricane Bob was much easier to track than the storm over Moscow.