families, our past, our memories of our families are here. and we want people to enjoy this area. we want to continue to enjoy this area. but this is -- you know, we know what to do with a hurricane. we don't know what to do with this. >> those beaches, really, i know that you feel are something really special. >> you know they are. this -- this stretch of beach, 100 miles along here, 25 miles in alabama, 75 miles in florida, 100-mile strip, the miracle strip, and several years ago they did a soil sample from the top ten beaches of the world. and all of the nine beaches of the world were different combination of minerals, but this beach, they found, was one thing, it was crushed quartz. and so we have crushed quartz, the color and consistency of sugar, one mineral, and that's why it's so white and so bright