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From: Lead Slinger
Date: 9/11/2019
Time: 12:12:13 PM
To be stupidly technical (and trying to find something to be hopeful about), I believe most of these are "overwash breaches" - which are a natural and temporary thing:
"Swash and Whalebone Inlets reopened sometime around 1939 and were active but ephemeral inlets through 1962 (fig. 3). They were closed by 1983, and now are usually only open temporarily during major storms, when they act as overwash fans with very shallow channels that do not extend below MSL. These temporary features are referred to as overwash breaches rather than inlets, which, by definition, are required to have channels that extend well below MSL to remain open as viable inlets."
But that still leaves what may be several new inlets (6 or 7) that could either close back over or widen, depending upon weather, tides, and time frame.
Check this Link:
https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2006/5309/pdf/sir2006-5309.pdf