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Weather-tested residents brace for Dorian on Southeast coast
Looking to experience with past storms to guide preparations
Dorian prep
Tom Sikes, right, helps his friend Joey Spalding, left, fill sandbags at Spalding's home in Tybee Island, Ga., Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019, before the potential arrival of Hurricane Dorian. Spalding's home was flooded by Hurricane Irma in 2017, when he got 3 feet of water from the storm surge. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)
FOLLY BEACH, S.C. — Weather-tested residents along the coasts of Georgia and the Carolinas were using their experience with past storms to guide them Tuesday as they readied their homes for Hurricane Dorian and decided whether to heed evacuation orders.
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