The city of Newport Beach is rushing to build berms on both sides of Balboa Pier to protect the land from potential impacts of Tropical Storm Marie.
Marie shifts from hurricane to storm by the time it makes landfall in North America. This weekend could see abnormally high humidity, rough surf and tropical rain, forecasters say.
Dueling excavators and Bobcats are trying to work faster than Mother Nature, building berms in the sand.
“We heard reports that it (Hurricane Marie) might turn towards us, but if it does turn towards us, we wanna make sure we’re prepared for it,” Zac Gentry, municipal operations director, said…