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A Few Clouds Holding down the fort
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The owners of Fascinations jewelry store on Hempstead Avenue in Malverne boarded up shop by Saturday afternoon.
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Owners of Malverne Hot Bagels taped up windows to keep them from shattering in high winds.
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Even kids were preparing for the hurricane, even taunting it with signs on the playhouse in their West Hempstead yard reading "Come on Irene."
Courtesy Jon Anthony
Some shop owners taped up windows to keep them from shattering in high winds.
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Some business owners closed early Saturday and boarded up windows.
Eric Holden/Herald
Some shop owners taped up windows to keep them from shattering in high winds
Eric Holden/Herald
Some business owners closed early Saturday and boarded up windows.
Eric Holden/Herald
Malverne resident Margaret Delligatti secured her pool in preparation of Irene.
Courtesy Margaret Delligatti
Residents are taking precautions in preparation for hurricane Irene, taping up and boarding windows, plopping sandbags down on everything in sight and buying last-minute supplies and groceries.
So far, Irene has claimed four lives in North Carolina, where it hit at 7:30 a.m. Saturday, whipping sustained winds of 85 mph. More than 550,000 people in North Carolina and Virginia have been left without power since the Irene made landfall. It is expected to hit New York around 2 a.m. Sunday.
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