Chesapeake Bay Island Amid a Disappearing Act

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Weather.com - 4/24/13, Steve Szkotak, AP

Gravestones are laid out in front of an abandoned structure on the north end of Tangier Island, Va. on Wednesday, April 3, 2013.
 

TANGIER ISLAND, Va. -- One day after Hurricane Sandy lashed this speck of land in the Chesapeake Bay last fall, islander Carol Moore hopped in her skiff and headed to a stretch of beach along The Uppards, one of the islands that comprise this remote outpost. A favorite haunt, Moore collects sea glass, pottery and arrowheads that she finds among the bleached oyster shells that blanket the beach.

What she found there that day shocked her.

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