On Friday afternoon, a handful of regulars pulled up to the bar of the otherwise vacant restaurant to swig beer and fill the interior with thick plumes of cigarette smoke.

If not for the swirling red weather forecasts on the two televisions on opposite ends of the wooden bar, it would be nearly impossible to tell that one of the strongest Atlantic storms on record was headed directly for them.

Pauly, 53, worked diligently to serve beer from a tap above her head while, behind her, dollar bills plastered the walls with scribbled notes of “OBAMA SUCKS” and “SCREW HILLARY.”