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Mike: AREAS SEVERELY DAMAGED.
ROADS LOOK LIKE RIVERS AND THERE
ARE TREES ON TOP OF HOMES.
Susan: WE HAVE COVERAGE FROM
TONIGHT.
Mike: LET'S GO LIVE IN SOUTH
KINGS TOWN WITH THE SOUTH COUNTY
MOBILE NEWSROOM.
Reporter: THIS IS THE WORST
1954.
THAT WOULD BE CAROL, OF COURSE.
THIS IS A ROAD COVERED BY WATER
BEHIND US, DEBRIS FLOATED UP
HERE, BUT THE BIG STORY TONIGHT
IS EROSION, TONS OF SAND GONE.
THE FRONT ROW RIP, RATTLED AND
NOW FRONT ROW OF COTTAGES
WEREN'T ALWAYS THE CLOSEST TO
THE TIDE.
YEARS.
THERE USED TO BE A ROAD IN
FRONT OF IT, THEN YOU COULD PARK
BEACH.
THE BEACH IS GONE, THE PARK IS
GONE, THE ROAD IS GONE.
Reporter: LEAVING HIS SUMMER
GET AWAY AT 6:00 LAST NIGHT.
POUNDING.
CARPENTERS.
YOU CAN SEE THE WATER CHURNING,
ANAND--
THE WAVES FROM BANGING ON THE
FRONT OF THE CAUGHT ANGLE.
Reporter: HE MEASURED THE
AGAIN.
WE LEFT 43 FEET OF COAST LINE
JUST IN THAT ONE STORM.
Reporter: WHILE PLANS TO
REBUILD ARE UNDER WAY HERE,
THERE WAS AN AMAZED SURVIVAL UP
THE ROAD.
RELIGIOUS PRAYERS OR KARMA OR
WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT,
SOME SORT OF FORCE FIELD AROUND
IT.
LITERALLY WATER WAS ON IT.
Reporter: AND UNDER ITS
PRECARIOUS STRUCTURE, STORM
RAKED AWAY AT THE SHRINKING
SHORE.
AND IF YOU WERE AMONG THE
HOPEFUL, THE OWNER FELT IT.
Reporter: HE ALSO TELLS US HE
WAS AMAZED THAT NORMALLY THIS
TYPE OF STORM REALLY--FROM THE
RESTAURANT.
HE WAS AMAZED HOW MUCH WAS LEFT.
FOR SON REASON, MAYBE IT WAS
THAT FORCE FIELD HE MENTIONED,
LESS SAND WAS LEFT THAN HE