giradman
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Your brother in law certainly lives in an interesting area. I assume the beach appearance can change quite dramatically during a major storm.
Eastern Long Island (east of Riverhead where the two forks start) is a special place to visit and live - we've been there dozens of times since the early 1970s but never in a major storm - I've seen the ocean and sound w/ some wild waves in standard storms - but could get scary up on that hill w/ blizzard winds or if perchance a hurricane or tropical storm hit.
Those Hampton communities were first settled in the mid-1600s (w/ many crossing LI Sound from Connecticut & Rhode Island) and are still striving - in fact, Montauk is one of the newer towns and did not see major development until the 1920s when Carl Fisher wanted to turn the area into the 'Miami Beach of the North' (Source); well, the stock market crash of 1929, the Great Depression of the '30s, and hurricane of 1938 really delayed that dream. Dave