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RA: Well, I, you know, grew up here, you know? And that's-- You have to, when you grow up on an island like this you have to pay attention to the weather. It controls what you do, whether you like it or not. A hurricane, or, you know, northeaster, some of the northeasters are just as bad as hurricanes on the, uh, you know, about erosion and that sort of thing. Least with hurricanes, it's swift, you know, and it gets through here and gone, but you take a northeaster, it blows three days, four days, you know, in the same direction. And the sea builds up offshore, you know? That's what's doing the damage on Pea Island up there. So that kind of thing, you know?
FW: Well, what do you think should be done, to stop that?
RA: Well, they're gonna have to dredge-they're gonna have to pump the sand back. They're gonna have to replenish the beach, is what it amounts to. That's the way I see it. That's the least expensive thing to do. Put a dredge boat in and just pump the sand over on it. And see that doesn't bother the ecology or anything like that, because there's so much sand moves up and down that beach anyway, you know. There's no fish that, you know, like I'm saying, spawn there and that sort of thing, you know. The only season would be like in during turtle season when the turtles come up on the beach or something like that. You wouldn't dredge then, I wouldn't think, you know, but other than that, uh, it doesn't bother anything.