With Election Day looming just around the corner, America’s biggest cities and joining America’s biggest social media networks in battening down the hatches in preparation for any unrest that might follow the vote count.

In Midtown Manhattan, the site of some of the worst looting in the country during the worst of the George Floyd riots, Macy’s and other stores are hammering plywood over their doors and windows.

“Our windows at Macy’s Herald Square were previously scheduled to be dark next week in set-up for our annual holiday displays. Out of an abundance of caution, we are implementing additional security measures at several of our stores,” a company spokesman said in a statement reportedly emailed to NBC New York.

Despite the new window dressing, Macy’s says it intends to continue operating during normal business hours (though potential customers might be dissuaded by all the plywood).

NBC also reported that boards were going up at the T-Mobile store in Times Square.

Boards are also going up in Washington DC and LA, the site of a recent wave of protests following a police shooting of an armed black man.

CNBC’s Eamon Javers shared photos of businesses putting up plywood barriers in downtown Washington DC.

The neighborhood around the White House is preparing for unrest as businesses scrambled to put up boards, fences, chains and other barriers.

One Twitter user shared photos of downtown LA, where, he claimed, “so many businesses boarded up & in the process of boarding up. Same thing happening in Beverly HIlls & Santa Monica in anticipation of election night. All 3 areas hit hard by looters & rioters during the George Floyd unrest.”

We’re beginning to see a pattern here. Many of the neighborhoods around the country resorting to putting up plywood and other fortifications already learned their lesson back in the Spring.

In San Francisco, the city’s tallest building, Salesforce Tower, has covered all of its ground floor windows in plywood, according to tweets from a local journalist.

In Seattle, the area formerly known as “CHAZ/CHOP” isn’t taking any chances.

Further out in the suburbs, strip malls in Bellevue, Wash. apparently aren’t taking any chances.

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