Eighty to 90 percent of the U.S. sandy beaches are presently eroding. Those are the ones that cause erosion. And the reason for that is, for the preponderance of erosion, is that they're more often, more frequent. These winter storms can affect the entire Atlantic coast from Maine to Florida, they're that big. And they last a long time, they can last for several days.
Hurricanes are much more energetic.
But they're more surgical. When they come through, you're only looking at a couple hundred miles or so of beach generally, which really gets severely impacted. I'm Kevin Pierce with the Florida Environment. As Florida is the only state to have a coast on both, it receives special attention. The reason why the Atlantic and Gulf coast was highlighted is because this is where we find many sandy beaches, there's a lot of real estate there, a lot of development, and certainly Florida has its fair share if not more of it.