Extensive improvements on her beachfront house were finished only last month.

Only one beachfront house in the southern part of town survived.

From the air, you can see how the landscape moves from simple fields to sublime beachfront houses.

Because of the lack of warning, or preparedness, more than 600 people died, most of them from the storm surge that swept beachfront houses into the sea.

Waterfront homes with a dock start at about 950,000, four-bedroom beachfront houses at 1.6m.