Residents along Ormond-by-the-Sea are used to seeing what rough surf and high tides can do to their roads. After nearly every storm, sections of A1A wash out, sometimes leaving drivers stranded.

Residents say washouts are nothing new.

“We get washed out all the time,” Carl Hausermann, a Volusia resident, said.

To help prevent that kind of damage, the Florida Department of Transportation completed a buried seawall project earlier this year between Marlin Drive and Sunrise Avenue. Over the cement pilings, crews built up sand dunes to reinforce the shoreline.

But after last week’s offshore storms, much of that sand washed away, exposing the concrete wall beneath.

“It did a lot of damage,” said Gary Schweizer, who lives nearby. “I was sad to see all that sand washed away again.”

While it

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