Apr. 24âCAPE MAY, N.J. â Distant thunder rumbled over the gabled, Victorian roofs and charcoal clouds were barreling over the beach toward Mohamed Abdelsalam, but the former soldier in the Egyptian army was 20 feet up a ladder and not coming down. Mohamed, please. We can wait, said his wife, Lisa, who steadied the ladder with her son.
Mohamed, 68, has been cooking up hot pies at Louie s Pizza for nearly 25 years and vowed not to leave Wednesday until he could take his sign down and move on with his life. Everything else inside the store was gone, gutted by the property owner earlier this month in a dispute over unpaid rent.