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The bands played on Friday. Bands of rain came and went in advance of Hanna. Through it all, people made last minute preparations, securing boats, putting up hurricane window coverings. At least one person went out shrimping and had the entire outer harbor to himself.

As we wait for Hanna, here are some more images from Friday:

Synchronized Hanna Prep. Lesley and Dan Allen cover their windows for Hanna. They have been thru a hurricane — in Mississippi — but this is their first in Oriental.

Skip Thorn checks his neighbor’s chairs on a platform facing the Neuse They were fastened to the deck.

Wrapped mainsails are the look in town as Hanna approaches. These were at Pecan Grove as storm clouds hovered.

… and these were at Sea Harbour.

Patrick Baker of Raleigh came to Sea Harbour to secure his Catalina, “Meriweather”. He says that on the way in, in Bayboro, he noticed the roadside ditches were full of water already.

Steve Donoghue motors away from the Town Dock Friday morning. The town doesn’t allow boats to be tied up at the Town Dock during weather of the sort we’re expecting.

Some winds and whitecaps near Windmill Point Friday.

Most boats had tied up at docks or in hurricane holes or been pulled from the water, but late Friday one intrepid fisherman dragged for shrimp near the bridge.

The picnic tables at Lou Mac Park are tied to one of the live oaks there.

Heavy weather often sets docks and dock boards free. Gary Gresko’s sculpture at the corner of South Water and New Streets is made of old dock boards. From some angles, it represents the eye of a hurricane. . .

Posted Friday September 5, 2008 by Melinda Penkava