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On Nantucket, some threw caution to wind

Ray Milnarik and Pati Barclay of Albany, N.Y., caught up on their reading yesterday afternoon as breakers from Earl crashed along Cisco Beach. “It’s very meditative,’’ Barclay said. Ray Milnarik and Pati Barclay of Albany, N.Y., caught up on their reading yesterday afternoon as breakers from Earl crashed along Cisco Beach. “It’s very meditative,’’ Barclay said. (Matthew J. Lee/Globe Staff)
By Brian MacQuarrie
Globe Staff / September 4, 2010

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Tropical Storm Earl swept ashore last night with lashing rain, tree-twisting winds, and enough bad karma to keep nearly all of the island’s 50,000 residents and visitors hunkered inside for shelter. What it did not do, at least by midnight, was live up to its ominous billing. (Full article: 952 words)

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