Storm Damages Beachfront Homes in Salisbury, Massachusetts

Hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent in an effort to protect beachfront homes in Salisbury , Massachusetts , and it took just one storm to bring residents back to reality. Sunday's storm, like so many before, proved costly on Salisbury Beach, but for a different reason. On Thursday, residents had just finished trucking in 15,000 tons of sand, paying the $600,000 price tag out of their own pockets.

"As homeowners, I mean, we are kind of spitting into the wind here," Joe Rossitto, a Salisbury Beach resident, said Tuesday.Sign up for NECN newsletters. "If we didn't build this, these dunes, our properties would have gotten damaged," Tom Saab, a Salisbury resident said. Waves have pounded the coast in Salisbury, where beachfront property owners are concerned about what's to come. Saab and Rossitto say it isn't as easy as moving, either. In both cases, their oceanfront homes have been in their families for generations.Residents hope the state can help pay for a more permanent solution. "Sacrificial sand buys time, but it does not buy permanence," Republican Massachusetts Sen

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