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Originally Posted by Aeneas
That's what I was trying to get across not well obviously.
I wasn't talking about buildings or overturned chairs and broken windows. Structural damage has all been repaired. Although there beach front houses in Playa del Carmen. that have not been rebuilt and are no longer "beach front."
As you pointed out, some resorts lost their beaches; Royal Hawaiian I think is another that lost almost all.
Thanks for the hurricane history Redforever. You are right in that there is no problem with the beaches. Just they are smaller. In some cases, much smaller. My father was told the huge loss of sand was still from the storms of 2005, not from regular wind and water erosion.
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The trick is to go to places where the beach is natural. Many of the resorts "sculpted" their beaches from the get go. In other words, they expanded what beach there was, or reconfigured what beach there was.
Those man made beaches are the first to go in any storm because they were not natural to begin with. The natural beaches survive quite nicely.