By Steve Plunkett
A ban on leaving any type of hurricane shutters up year-round in Gulf Stream is coming.
The town already prohibited leaving plywood shutters up outside of hurricane season or when there is no unseasonal named storm threatening.
But
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The evolution of hurricane shutters
By Tim Norris
Rebuffing hurricanes is not an open-and-shutters case, Michael Bornstein concedes, but for most area residents, openings and shutters are weapons of choice.
Learning where and how to use them is
Looking at the steel Bahama shutters on Old Key Lime House, Mike Bornstein can picture their evolution: first, wood, with down-tilted slats to let in air and light; then steel, later treated for added strength, then aluminum, later extruded for the s
