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Long Islanders beat the heat on the ice
Photo credit: Brittany Wait
Erin Flood practices her pairs ice skating routine at The Rinx in Hauppauge two hours a day, six days a week.
On Wednesday, when the East Coast was hit with its first extreme heat of the summer, Flood was glad to spend her day training with Ronkonkoma's Robert Knopf, 25, at The Rinx in Hauppauge. While high temperatures were pummeling Long Island Wednesday, Flood was in shorts and a tank top,...