And in the last year, the cast of the MTV show Jersey Shore took Miami Beach by storm, creating "situation" after "situation" in clubs across town.
Two years after Katrina's storm surge swallowed 6, 000 of the 25, 000 homes and businesses along Biloxi Beach Boulevard, storm debris has been cleared to make way for high-rise hotels, condominiums, casinos and other businesses.
"We are urging the government and beach managers to adopt a mandatory national scheme to provide permanent public information about storm pollution on every bathing beach, " said Mr Bell.
As filming on the island finished and restoration began in early February, The Beach was hit by another storm.
The storm devastated Mississippi beach towns and left most of New Orleans flooded when the city's protective levees failed at several points.
Pure Thoughts is about 20 miles inland from West Palm Beach, and as the storm moved north, the warnings about bad weather did not, according to Gaver, seem to apply to them.
Beach recovery: process whereby accretion takes place at a beach, usually after a major storm or hurricane.
The specially outfitted Boeing 757 barely shuddered as it gingerly skirted some of the most ferocious storm cells over Fort Walton Beach and then climbed above the rest in zero visibility.
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His brother, Roger, visits the beach once a year, like a tropical storm that changes everything.
Local beach bars along Misquamicut Beach saw roof damage at the outset of the storm.
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Michael Terrasi and Laura Gatti live in one of the communities near South Beach which was most exposed to the worst of storm Sandy.
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The massive lot at the beach-side Jacob Riis Park was piled high with storm detritus.
As the storm came close, MacGillivray, in Laguna Beach, Calif.
Restoration of No. 1 trains to South Ferry would leave just a single section of the subway system out of service because of storm damage, the A train between Howard Beach and Rockaway Park.
The storm had floated the small shop from its position on the beach into the street a block away.
While many Long Beach neighborhoods away from the shore emerged more or less unscathed, the storm struck hard at the bungalows and former summer cottages crowded into the city's West End.
On Cape Cod, where the storm was expected to be mostly rain, officials were concerned about beach erosion.
The Oreck Corporation makes vacuums in Long Beach, Mississippi, where many of its 600 workers lost everything in the storm.
Storm waves and high winds have washed away thousands of tonnes of beach sand in front of the launching area for a Norfolk lifeboat.
This evening, in Midland Beach, New York, on a street lined with houses and businesses devastated by the storm, a great big Christmas tree shines out of the darkness.
Light rain ahead of the category one storm set to hit here Sunday were not enough to deter an afternoon wedding at The Chanler overlooking Easton Beach from the famous Cliff Walk.
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