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Northshore October 2025
The romance and tranquility of Plum Island has lured homeowners to its long stretch of open shores for decades. But could the natural forces that spawned an entire community now threaten its very existence?It happened just a few days before Thanksgiving 2008. A storm about 200 miles off the coast of Massachusetts was generating intense, unforgiving waves. After finally reaching land, those waves battered Geri Buzzota's Plum Island home, forcing her to abandon it as it fell into the ocean. Buzzota watched in horror as her house on Northern Boulevard crashed into the water. Days later, she watched as sand was deposited onto her property. "If th
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