Did that old man (skippy winner) from Carolina Beach survive Florence?

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Waiting for the back half of the storm Skippy Winner, an 84-year-old retired sea captain, spent Thursday night inside his fortified home in Carolina Beach, N.C., as Hurricane Florence raged outside. By 8:30 a.m. Friday, Mr. Winner was standing in his yard, surveying the damage from the storm as the eye wall passed over the exposed barrier island. “I made it through the night just fine,” he said in a telephone interview. “But I think there’s worse to come when we get the back side of the storm.” Forecasters have said Carolina Beach, a small, low-lying beach community south of Wilmington, N.C., is likely to bear the full brunt of the hurricane as the northeast quadrant of the storm spins south and west across the island after making landfall at Wrightsville Beach, just up the coast, shortly after 7 a.m. Friday. Mr. Winner, who has ridden out every hurricane and nor’easter on the island since Hurricane Hazel in 1954, said that as the storm turns south, the island will be hit with fierce winds from the northeast once the eye passes. He said he learned to read storms and winds during his long career as a charter boat and head boat captain. “We’re not through the worst of it yet — it’s going to be bad all along the whole coast,” Mr. Winner said as he went back inside.

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