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All Battened Down

Lines on Knorr were doubled Monday in advance of a blizzard moving up the East Coast forecast to bring hurricane-strength gusts and near-record amounts of snowfall. WHOI port engineer Dutch Wegman said staff and crew only stopped laying on lines when “they ran out of bollards to attach them to.” With the height of the storm scheduled for Tuesday morning, the Institution will be closed all day, but a crew on Knorr will keep generators ready in case power fails and Facilities staff will remain on duty in case of emergencies.(Photo by Ken Kostel, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)