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Fire Island plays waiting game as Earl churns up coast

Published: September 2, 2010 8:17 AM
By DAVE MARCUS dave.marcus@newsday.com

Photo credit: Newsday / Alejandra Villa | Laurence Ressold prepare his Fire Island home for the Hurricane Earl by boarding the windows. (Sept. 1, 2010)

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Fire Island's usual pre-Labor Day questions - Hot dogs or hamburgers? Bay beach or ocean beach? - turned serious Wednesday.

At grocery stores and docks from Kismet to Saltaire, longtime residents who followed the northward path of Hurricane Earl were starting to ask: Stay or go?

"You have to take these storm warnings seriously, but hardly anyone does here," said Al Blair, 63, of Bay...

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