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Jamaica Bay resident Deborah Star Reed says she's worried about her home.

"Actually I've been terrified, never been more concerned," Star Reed said. "I never thought I would ever leave, you know, my home in the middle of a storm I've always weathered the storms."

Next door at Selma Eery's house, her son and a friend were getting ready to board up windows.

"We are going to do what we have to do and pray to God and hope for the best and take it from there," Eery said.

Across the street on Bayfield Avenue, Lisa Walcott was moving items indoors. She also said she would be heading out and staying with family.

"I have children and so I have to think for them and get us as safe as possible until it's safe to come back," Walcott said.

Nelson Del Valle was also leaving before the storm's arrival, staying with family in Brooklyn.

"I'm worried but there is nothing that we can do," Del Valle said.

Meanwhile, on the ocean side of the peninsula, surfers were enjoying bigger waves as the storm approaches. But that doesn't mean they will be out there when it arrives.

"Absolutely, take it in until the weather turns and then call it a day," said one surfer.

"It's bigger than it's been in some time and hopefully it will be bigger as we get closer to the hurricane," said another. "We don't want to be in the hurricane but before and after is fine."

One surfer, though, put it all in perspective saying, "I live for this weather all summer long, but when it gets too crazy, I'm out of here."