Coastal areas will receive strong tides with these storms due to sea level rise.

Horse lovers grow up reading about the free-roaming ponies of Assateague Island.




May 19, 2012, 4:54 PM

Wild Ponies and Wild Weather

By DIANE ACKERMAN

...It took decades (click here) for the delicate coastal ecosystems to recover, the cities and towns to rebuild, and the wild ponies to regain their numbers. In one way the storm was lucky for the ponies. Assateague was being developed as an island resort, but after the roads and structures were washed away, developers abandoned the idea, and the island joined the National Park Service instead. Only the fittest and smartest ponies survived, and their genes live on in the current herd, which is vigorous, canny and well adapted to the rigors of a maritime landscape....