Afterward, due to the flooding that this break created, various agencies moved in and closed it back up and filled it in. For a while, about 500 or so small homes and beach shacks (to the left for about 3 miles) were completely cut off and evacuated.
This area became the incorporated village of Westhampton Dunes and promptly started to rebuild. It was never a charming place to begin with but with about 3 miles of south facing Atlantic Ocean beach suddenly clear of buildings and lots that are about 60 feet wide, well, it was a chance, for about a million bucks, to have your ocean front. There is a road camera on Google Earth that goes down through Westhampton Dunes (Dune Road) and you can see the population density. The average selling price is now about $1.9million and this is the risk...your federal flood insurance dollars at work.
