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The project to bring in 14,000 tons of sand to a Massachusetts town was completed just three days before a powerful storm.

A Massachusetts beach community is scrambling after a weekend storm washed away nearly $600,000 worth of sand that had been trucked in to protect homes, roads and other infrastructure. The

Residents of Salisbury in Massachusetts put up the money for man-made dunes to protect homes and roads in the beach community

The Salisbury Beach Citizens for Change group, which facilitated the project and helped raise funds, posted on social media about the project's completion last week and then again after the storm. They argued the project still was worthwhile, noting that "the sacrificial dunes did their job" and protected some properties from being "eaten up" by the storm.

The project to bring in 14,000 tons of sand to a Massachusetts town was completed just three days before a powerful storm.

The project, which brought in 14,000 tons of sand over several weeks in Salisbury, was completed just three days before Sunday's storm.

A Massachusetts beach community is scrambling after a weekend storm washed away nearly $600,000 worth of sand that had been trucked in to protect homes, roads and other infrastructure. The

Big Sky offers plenty of alcohol options for locals and tourists. For people that want to drink on their vacation, it's important to know options on how to get home when you're out drinking.

Noah Davis has lived in Big Sky for two years and says it can be challenging to get home from the bars with limited transportation options in town.