1.   Joe Bishop, another member of the cheerful group, said Fran sent the ocean tumbling over the dune line and into the apartment below.

2.   The configuration bows to the immovable oaks while echoing an ancient dune line.

3.   The disappearance of parts of the dune line after large storms is not surprising, said Orrin Pilkey, a geologist at Duke University in Durham.

4.   Truckloads of sand were shaped into a makeshift dune line to try to keep waves from ravaging the barrier beach island of West Hampson Dunes.