My parents never put plywood on any of the windows becuase we too many, serioulsy we have 10 windows in the fron of our house, it would be insane to board up all the windows, to be honest i love hurricanes, lol, u get out of school, you get to watch the wind rip up all the trees, my pool usually floods. Really they arent that bad at all just as long as they dont level ur house they are cool