Sentence examples for on barrier from inspiring English sources

Mr. Christie also urged people on barrier islands to leave.

If you live on barrier islands, you need to pump sand.

Carol Monaghan was the only other mother on Barrier Street who'd been around as long as Patty.

Scientists have long expected sea level rise on the south-east Florida coast to occur faster than the global average, advancing rapidly on barrier islands and beaches.

Officials in central Florida's Brevard County are ordering residents on barrier islands and in flood-prone areas to evacuate on Wednesday in advance of the powerful hurricane.

He anticipates extensive damage to private property and public infrastructure on barrier islands, and other parts of the coast, he said.

The money could be spent, they say, on barrier island restoration, for example, in which dredged sand is used to bolster existing islands, mimicking natural processes.

There is no worse example of unsafe development on barrier islands than Dauphin Island — nothing else like it in North America".

Here is the larger point: Up and down the nation's coastlines, humans have had a direct impact on barrier islands, sometimes in ways that accelerate their natural erosion.

By Jonathan Franzen Walter and Patty Berglund were the young pioneers of Ramsey Hill — the first college grads to buy a house on Barrier Street since the old heart of St . Paulhad fallen on hard times three decades earlier.

The rental house on Barrier Street, next door to the Berglunds, had presumably been included in the deal; otherwise, it was hard to see why Carol would have consented to live in what was then still basically a slum.