As thousands along the Grand Strand prepare to wait out tropical storm Hanna, boat owners are putting their boats away as the storm churns in the Atlantic.
“When we get a hurricane like this, anything that I can lift out of the water; if anyone wants to come inside, I do that,” Bob Cristina, the harbor master at the Crickett Cover marina said.
Cristina says he's spent the past two days filling this warehouse with boats, some 300 to be exact.
“This is the first one this year, this is not the first one I've been through here. We've gone through this exercise a number of times and it's all turned out for the best. We do a lot of work getting everything in here; it's a lot of work getting it back out,” Cristina said.
“It's a big investment; you don't want to see anything happen to it,” Michael Dichiara said.
Dichiara bought his boat about a year ago and said although he's never gone through a hurricane before, he's well aware of the dangers, “I've seen plenty of photographs of boats that have been in hurricanes piled on top of each other and upside down, on rocks and I just don't want that to happen to mine.”
Although for some, today's blue skies and sunshine make it hard to believe a storm is hours away, these folks know taking chances could cost them a major investment.
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