Pines architect Hal Hayes.

And it took a while for people to really begin to practice safe sex.

Many people here, I remember in the beginning, there would be friend groups or acquaintance groups and they would just kind of make a pact to just have sex with each other and nobody else.

But, of course, there was always somebody in the group who was already infected.

You never knew.

You never knew who was going to be back the next year when you came or who might have died over the course of the winter.

Here's Hal Hayes.

So I always have a room for dancers that weekend.

Pines architect Hal Hayes.

The first storm that I lived through destroyed several houses around me, took my pool and several other pools around here.

That storm was really cataclysmic for the Pines.

And after it, the houses were really on stilts with water underneath them.

Looking out my living room window, it was like being on a boat.

You couldn't see anything but water.

It was spectacular, but kind of scary, too.