TREASURE COAST (CBS12) — Storms not even close to Florida now are doing more damage to our coastline, as a seasonal rare King Tide rolls in.

For those of you who thought Hurricane Matthew did as much as he could do to us, stand by.

The high tides this week are called a King Tide, or a super high tide that happens only a few days a year, and of course, now would be that time for us.

October 11-18 is expected to have tides 3-4 feet above normal with the King Tides, and add that to already rough surf churned up from tropical systems way out in the Atlantic Ocean, just south of Bermuda.

Indian River County Commissioner Peter O’Bryan says they are already seeing the impacts. As the 26-mile coastline there suffered severe erosion, they now have the perfect sand-stealing, erosive tides to keep packing a punch this week.

"We don't want to see our beaches look like this," said resident Caroline Castle, who can’t believe the damage at Jaycee Park in Vero Beach. And if it seems to be getting worse, it is.

"I'm quite surprised at how bad it is actually. I know we didn't get a direct hit like those further up the coast but this is the first time I have seen it and yeah I'm quite shocked," Castle said.

The hurricane pulled sand off the Treasure Coast in massive amounts.County leaders estimate a loss of around 350,000 cubic yards. That is equal to close to 71 million gallons of sand sent to sea during the storm.

In fact, if you filled a standard one-gallon water jug with sand and lined them all up, from end to end, it’s enough sand to go 13,466 miles.

Indian River County Commissioner Peter O’Bryan says that will cost taxpayers about $14 million to put the sand back out here along 26 miles of their coastline.

“We dodged a bullet but did get grazed,” said Commissioner Peter O'Bryan with the Indian River County Commission, "it is expensive sand, but it did its job, I mean it protected billions of dollars of infrastructure that is what the sand is used for as well as tourism."

This week they also predict the erosion will get worse before it gets better. Even with FEMA relief, they can’t restore any beaches until after turtle nesting season. And now with King Tides coming in, the erosion will keep chipping away at the coastline.

"The storms are still out there churning so all week long we have seen a strong northeast wind which brings the most erosive waves onto the beaches, so we are not done yet for sure," O’Bryan said.

The King Tide, which only happens a few times a year, will come visit us on the Treasure Coast and Palm Beaches this entire week, and then is predicted to rise again November 12th, and one last time, for a few days again around December 14th.

"If you’re saying it’s going to get worse before it gets better that doesn't make me feel good," Castle said.