Other than immediate hurricane, has the current Perch's steps ever been dangling in the air? I have not seen it.

I watched our favorite beach town on the Florida Atlantic coast slowly lose sand then grass then built small sea wall, then boulders in front of wall, then artificial reefs, then finally pumping in of sand. Now that sand is on the decline.

I think the trend is definitely a negative one on Orient. Not one of pluses and minuses equaling out.