Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said last week that she had assurances from the Army Corps of Engineers that the agency would finance completion of a study of how best to protect 83 miles of ocean shoreline from Fire Island Inlet to Montauk Point.
In the past decade, a rapid development of UAVs has been observed especially in civil sector, for example in monitoring applications such as environmental monitoring, search and rescue operations, pollution monitoring, port and off shoreline security, forest fire detection, and so on [5].
In New York, Hurricane Bonnie actually scoured an outlying sandbar and deposited more beach sand on the Fire Island shoreline, said Gerard Stoddard, president of the Fire Island Association.
A bonfire is lighted at that hilltop boulder; then on the lake below, residents ignite red road flares all along the 32-mile shoreline, creating a "ring of fire" that links this chosen spot with its distant past.
In an effort to help the infantry fighting to take Omaha, some of the destroyers providing gunfire support closed near the shoreline, almost grounding themselves to fire on the Germans.
"They randomly fired at people sitting near the beach before entering the restaurant,"" said witness Ahmed Nur, who was strolling along the shoreline when the attack happened.
After dark the only light came from fires near the shoreline, though it was dimmed by a cloud of dust.
He declined to say whether he suspected that other stretches of Boardwalk along the state's shoreline were susceptible to similar fires.
A strange and dangerous paradise, L.A., and we stubborn fools insist on staying put despite earthquakes, drought, forest fires, the dwindling shoreline.
Here is what Dr. Tim Kana of Coastal Science and Engineering reports: "Erosion of the beach, contrary to popular wisdom, is not leading to accretion along Fire Island's bay shoreline (by way of washovers).
