81.   Critics counter that barrier islands like these Bogue Banks were never safe for development that brought investment properties and asphalt roads.

82.   Justice Stroud and his family found themselves trapped on Panama City Beach, a barrier island, because the roads were too crowded to leave.

83.   Justice Stroud and his family found themselves trapped on Panama City Beach, a Florida barrier island, because the roads were too crowded to leave.

84.   More flooding was expected Friday along the Outer Banks, a chain of barrier islands off the coast.

85.   Nearly a dozen people were found huddling in the wreckage of their homes on the narrow barrier island where Hurricane Opal charged ashore, rescuers said Saturday.

86.   New Jersey authorities were most concerned about high wind causing coastal flooding and started urging voluntary evacuations, warning that barrier islands could be cut off from the mainland.

87.   On Fire Island, a barrier island to the much larger Long Island, residents were ordered to evacuate this morning.

88.   Problems surfaced during the regatta when storms spawned by Hurricane Erin submerged a tiny barrier island used as a storage area for several hundred boats.

89.   The sandy barrier island is more or less at sea level.

90.   The warming will cause ocean levels to rise, causing barrier islands to disappear and -- when the geography allows -- force wetlands and marshes inland.