Building dunes protects barrier beach communities as a whole but some homeowners don’t care, fighting to keep man-made dunes away from their houses.  This creates a ready breach for storm waters to rush through, flooding adjacent properties whether or not dunes front those houses to hold off the ocean or bay. The end of the story details the status of lawsuits by dune-resistant homeowners, on 5th Amendment grounds, to recover the value allegedly stripped from their homes by recently erected dunes.