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What to do on Long Island when it rains

Originally published: August 3, 2010 12:02 PM
Updated: September 28, 2012 9:26 AM
By Brittany Wait  brittany.wait@newsday.com

Photo credit: Newsday/Ana P. Gutierrez | A woman walks as she is seen through a wet window during a rainy day at Roosevelt Field Mall in Garden City on Monday, May 04, 2009.

Imagine that you’re sitting at home with nothing to do, no classes to wake up for, no work, Facebook is glitchy and you can’t stand the sight of a computer screen any longer. The rain isn’t going to let up for quite sometime and you need to break away from updating social-networking sites or watching re-runs of “Law and Order.”

Why not grab the keys and head to the car? It wouldn't hurt to...