the nor'easters, brian, and with tropical systems, over time some of that sand will come back and the natural replenishment will kick in. but again, they pumped a lot of sand, lot of money spent every year by the corps up and down the beaches to keep them nice and wide. sometimes it all goes for naught especially when you have a system like this not moving, slowing down, battering the beaches. the waves running 15, 20, 25 footers and that's on top of the surge. what we call the wave run up. it just eats away at the beaches. that's going to be part of the story, along with the inland flood threat which could be catastrophic, and power outages now up to 164,000 customers in north carolina. those numbers are going to skyrocket. that's a guarantee, brian. >> all right. meteorologist mike seidel with the weather channel in wilmington, north carolina. we can't mention this enough, over 160,000 customers, not individuals, but customers,