"I've never seen sand like this," said Scott Bennett, a contractor who has worked in storm recovery since 2005's Hurricane Katrina. "Wind, rain, water, but never sand."
"The best way to describe it, it's like getting 4 to 6 feet (1.2 to 1.8 meters) of snow up north," said Jeremi Roberts, a member of the State Emergency Response Team surveying the damage that day.
"The beach just moved over everything," Ron Dyer said, as storms blew about 3 feet of sand up against their condo building on Venice Island.
"They just kept digging and wheeling and digging and wheeling. . . . They were there for two days doing that," he said. "We got to do it all over again."
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