supporting this massive project with the hopes it will protect them from a life of future storms. sandy damaged or destroyed basically every one of the more than 500 homesçó alone and there were many more vulnerable coastal communities up and down the jersey shore. the army corp of engineers is ready to begin work on a 50 mile long and $1 billion 75-foot wide and 25-foot tall sand dune. and it widened the beach by hundreds of feet and possibly starting here. this burrow like many towns in the jersey shore feel strongly of the value they will get from the army corp project and the protection it will offer not only the homeowners, but the entire community fnlt. they say if they start in the next couple months, harris, they could be finished here before next summer. rick, i know these holdouts say they are not giving up. right, one has hired an attorney and the other four still have not caved despite
and catastrophic flood. our basements filled with water. our the water spilled over into our living space, now kmoe, up to four feet in most homes. so after that flood, we ripped out our walls, our flooring and we had to dispose of all of our possessions and there was previously an ongoing army corp study and we requested the status of the army corp project and we were told that the army corp project going on for 20 years, was still probably decades away from completion. 20 year-old project, decades away from completion? the army corps of engineers is we could do a whole show on that but, continue. so we attempted to find alternative methods to protect our home and our goal was to save our neighborhood and save our home. and so, we researched the feasibility of buyouts, flood