With Hurricane Florence two days away from the port of Wilmington, North Carolina, on Tuesday, Glenn Harbeck, the city’s director of development, planning, and transportation, wielded a power drill to screw four-by-eight sheets of plywood over the windows of his home. “I’ve been through five hurricanes, two of which had eyes that passed over this house,” he said. “But this is the first time I’ve ever considered boarding up.” Harbeck, who is sixty-three, has lived in Wilmington since 1979. “To the best of my knowledge, we’ve never had a storm like this before in my lifetime,” he said. Seven hundred miles offshore, Florence’s winds had intensified into a rare, Category 4 hurricane. If, as meteorologists predict, it remains that powerful when it makes landfall—which is expected Thursday—it could inflict a ten-foot storm surge and hundred-and-forty-mile-per-hour winds on the coastal city of a hundred and seventeen thousand people. Harbeck had decided to board up this time, in part, because of the green “three-pound” pine cones that hang from nearby trees. “If you have one coming at your window at a hundred-plus miles per hour, that’s bad,” he said. “A broken window compromises the integrity of your house, and you can lose… Read full this story
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