Sherry DelleCurti had hoped that a flurry of sales from Black Friday and Small Business Saturday shoppers would keep Presque Isle Consignment, 2208 W. Eighth St., open after a rough year.
Instead, a winter storm dumped about four feet of snow on Erie in the days after Thanksgiving. DelleCurti was forced to close her Millcreek Township consignment store those days, and later announce that it would go out of business in March.
“Even before the storm hit, the news about it coming was just crazy,” DelleCurti said. “I just kept saying to my family, ‘It’s not going to be good.'”…