ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- They've been playing football for 100 years at the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind, and it has been 34 years since their last Deaf National Championship.

Second year head coach Eric LeFors led his team to a one loss 2013 campaign, which included wins against both hearing teams as well as deaf teams from across the country.

They finished the year 9-1, winning their final game against the defending deaf champions, California School for the Deaf and Blind. 

"The last game was really the icing on the cake," LeFors said. 

He is also deaf, and played college football at Gallaudet. 

Last season he led the team to their first winning record in years, and said he knew he had something to build on for this year.

"After the first game I saw how the players played and their hearts, their commitment, we knew we could do more," he said.

ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. -- The Summer Haven River is one big step closer to being restored.

Currently, sand clogs the river in Southern St. Johns County.

Dee Parker's home is on the Summer Haven River, and she has lived there for 23 years.

When beach sand started choking the Summer Haven River, she and many others were heartbroken.

"It was devastating. Just devastating," Parker said.

So the news that the Florida Department of Environmental Protection is in the final stage of approving a permit to restore the river makes her very happy.

"We're thrilled. We're excited," Parker smiled.

The river started sanding in five years ago when storms sent waves crashing through a sand dune on a nearby beach.  Since then, beach sand has slipped into the Summer Haven River, clogging it and turning riverfront homes into homes on the sand.

VILANO BEACH, Fla. -- Some rapid erosion in Vilano Beach has homeowners worried.

The nor'easters this autumn really pounded the coastline. People who live on or near the coast estimate that about 5- to 8-feet of sand dune just disappeared over the weekend.
Now some houses are much closer than they were to the edge of a cliff.

"We've never had as bad as this. This is the worst we've had it," Scott Pacetti said. He lives on Vilano Beach and his walkway to the beach is about to give way after feet of sand dune underneath it has eroded.

One neighborhood beach access point across from Boating Club Road used to slope down and there were stairs going down to the beach. However, now those stairs are gone and a 10- to 15-foot cliff is there instead.

Linda Dettlings said, "It's awful. It's devastation."