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GALVESTON, TX (KTRK/CNN) - Texas resident Fred Lantz has secured his Galveston home, clearing the first floor of valuables, filling water bottles, and taking his car off the island.

"My air compressor was already up on the shelves so I didn't have to worry about that, I just need to do the vacuum and the fan I'll pick those things up on the shelf," Lantz said.

The same goes for Joan Newton, who doesn't want her elderly mother to ride out the storm.

"I'm very respectful of the storm potential, not to take it lightly," Newton said.

Galveston Mayor Jim Yarbrough said the West End's voluntary evacuation order was necessary because of the potential for storm surge combined with heavy rain.

"Just in case they may need some help, special needs or medical, we want to make sure we can get to them and they can access the care they may need," Yarbough said. "Preparation not panic, we've been through these before."

On Mechanic Street at the Island East End Theatre Company, they're closing their doors for the weekend.

Many businesses have already started to close for the weekend, beginning early this morning with crews lifting life guard stations off the beach.

At the theatre, they're going one step further by filling and piling sandbags.
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GALVESTON, TX (KTRK/CNN) - Texas resident Fred Lantz has secured his Galveston home, clearing the first floor of valuables, filling water bottles, and taking his car off the island. "My air compressor was already up on the shelves so I didn't have to worry about that, I just need to do the vacuum and the fan I'll pick those things up on the shelf," Lantz said.

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Fried ice cream sounds like a lot of things: A complete disaster and the inspiration for Katy Perry's Hot N Cold are the first couple that come to mind - but, in reality, it's neither. (Unless Katy Perry isn't telling us something.) Turns out, when you drop a ball of ice cream coated in cereal or cookie crumbs into a vat of screaming hot oil, it actually frys instead of melting down into an unrecognizable mess.

Sam Chau and his brother Nelson started hawking the dessert at local street fairs seven years ago, and just this April, they opened a Sam's Fried Ice Cream brick-and-mortar shop in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. There's not much in the way of seating, but the fried ice cream isn't something you luxuriate over, anyway. Once you crack through the fried coating, the ice cream starts doing what it does best: melting.

All of the balls of ice cream are pre-frozen at -5 degrees. Once you choose your flavor - there's everything from green tea to rainbow vanilla, but cookies and cream is a favorite - the ball is unwrapped, dunked in flour and batter, then in a coating of your choosing: Oreos, Cornflakes, bread crumbs. The Chau brothers are always tinkering with new ideas for those - Nelson wants to launch a red velvet ball for Valentine's Day - but it's the endless toppings that customers go crazy for. You can pile on whatever you want, like chocolate chips, M&M's, and Oreos. Trust us: You're going to want a lot sop up all that melty ice cream at the end.
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