Tour explores Fire Island's Sandy-ravaged shores
Photo credit: Randee Daddona | Park Service Ranger MaryLaura Lamont led a group on a winter's walk on the barrier beach of Fire Island to identify changes of the landscape created by Superstorm Sandy. (Feb. 24, 2013)
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Long Island destruction immediately after Sandy
A grove of overturned black cherry trees lay on the sand -- roots exposed -- toppled by giant ocean surges from superstorm Sandy.
Along Fire Island's nature-laden eastern end, the beach's primary dune, which had been 30-feet high, had been pummeled down to a series of giant lumps, and flooding had turned the cherry trees and clusters of Japanese black pines brown.
"Look at how the force...
