Hurricane Earl rolled into town yesterday, but on Long Island, it was business as usual for the most part—unless you went to the beach, that is.
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While Robert Moses and Jones Beach shores were vacant except for red flags, the metal detector crowd and storm hungry photographers and passersby, Long Beach was filled with surfers looking for a little of Hawaii’s North Shore on Long Island’s south shore.
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Although swimming was banned on Long Island beaches Friday due to riptides and strong surf from Hurricane Earl, dozens of daring surfers took to the waters and dozens of not-so-daring others watched from the boardwalk—and took pictures.