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" The last place you might expect to stay open in a hurricane evacuation is a bar. But that&amp;#039;s exactly what Howard&amp;#039;s Pub in Ocracoke Island, North Carolina, is doing, at least for the moment. Though tourists were told to leave the tiny vacation town Wednesday morning in advance of Hurricane Irene&amp;#039;s predicted landfall, residents don&amp;#039;t have to go until Thursday, which is when Howard&amp;#039;s will unhappily shutter its doors. Unsurprisingly, the bar&amp;#039;s 21-year owner, Ann Warner, told us, &amp;quot;There is little business... What few people remain hunker down at their homes or with friends.&amp;quot; Those who linger, however, can enjoy the local Pamlico Sound crab cakes, a rather extensive beer list, and the special-of-the-week &amp;quot;OBX Hurricane Cocktail.&amp;quot; So what exactly does a bar do before the storm? The precautions aren&amp;#039;t so different from anywhere else: secure the windows, dispose of all trash, tie down the chairs. Oh, and then there&amp;#039;s this: &amp;quot;We make sure the empty beer kegs aren&amp;#039;t on the ground so they won&amp;#039;t float away with a high tide.&amp;quot; That, truly, would be a tragedy. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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