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Originally Posted by RickeyM
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All of the barrier islands on the East Coast are sand bars. Hell, Miami Beach is (mostly) a man-made sandbar made by dredging sand up from Biscayne Bay in the 1920's. Even worse than these sandbars are the places like Cape Coral that was basically oceanfront marsh that was drained by canals and left horrifically exposed to the elements. Here's a really good article about Florida coastline development in general and Cape Coral in particular.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...estate/671629/