NEW YORK-- Valerie Chamberlain met her sister at the 99 cents store they own near the corner of Woodhaven Boulevard and Jamaica Avenue Monday.
The store sits near the center of what is usually one of the busiest commercial strips in Jamaica, Queens, a working-class section of New York City near JFK airport. Their plan: work most of the day or until the wind gets too loud to ignore.
Hurricanes don't really scare Chamberlain, 37, who hails from the island of Jamaica. But Hurricane Sandy, a massive tropical weather system wrapped in a nor'easter, sounds exotic and pretty frightening, she said. Chamberlain and her sister opened the store Monday because they will probably have to close it much of the rest of the week. Read More... More on Natural Disasters
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