Provincetown DPW staff work together to interlock the pieces of the red plastic flood barrier. "We've got to finesse her. We're trying to finesse her, here," said Nate Edwards, center, of fitting the ...

On a stormy day in December, a promising new storm-deployable barrier arrived in Provincetown’s East End — in pieces. Each segment was waist-high, shaped like the letter “L,” and made of bright red ...