1.   Along the Eastern Seaboard, emergencyment teams began to dust off plans for evacuating barrier islands and for housing people with nowhere to go.

2.   Along the Eastern Seaboard, emergency management teams began to dust off plans for evacuating barrier islands and for housing people with nowhere to go.

3.   Another would make it easier for developers to build on fragile barrier islands in Florida.

4.   Another draw is the barrier islands.

5.   Another would promote development on fragile barrier islands in Florida.

6.   As they left the house, secured and waiting for an insurance adjuster to inspect, they briefly toured the barrier island.

7.   At the coast, desolate lagoons and barrier islands host thousands of migrating birds and the occasional foraging polar bear.

8.   Barrier islands such as Topsail become thin from erosion and begin over washing, which moves sand into the sounds that separate them from the mainland.

9.   Bird Island is a barrier island, one mile long, separated from Sunset Beach by Madd Inlet, estuarine water that fills and empties with the tides.

10.   A big worry on the barrier island was storm surge.