![]() ![]() Watch Video: New England begins to dig out after epic snow While the expressway eventually opened, about 30 miles of the highway was to be closed again Sunday for snow removal. The Long Island Expressway and Sunrise Highway, major east-west routes, remained closed to all but emergency and utility vehicles Saturday afternoon. The weather service's local office wasn't far behind, with 30.9 inches recorded there. Medford, in Central Suffolk, got the most snow, with 33.5 inches reported by the National Weather Service. ![]() ![]() "We may be in the top 10 (largest snowfalls in recent history) for Suffolk County, and maybe in the top five," said David Stark, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service's Upton office on eastern Long Island. The storm hit Long Island so hard - at its height dropping snow at an estimated 3 to 4 inches per hour - that firetrucks and other emergency vehicles got stuck while trying to reach stranded motorists, Bellone said.Ĭuomo activated state National Guard units, which in some cases resorted to snowmobiles to aid the rescue effort, Bellone said. "This is a storm unlike anything we have experienced in parts of Suffolk County," Bellone said. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday.įriday evening commuters in many cases had driven to within a few miles of their homes when the "the snow literally swallowed them up," said Suffolk County Executive Steven Bellone at a Saturday afternoon news briefing at a state Department of Transportation garage in Melville after the two checked on recovery efforts. NEW YORK - The massive Northeast storm stranded an estimated 200 motorists in their vehicles as it dumped more than 2 feet of snow on Long Island's Suffolk County, the hardest hit area in the state, Gov. ![]()
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