Massive nor’easter slams Franklin Square and Elmont

Adriano Mario Sperduto was excited to watch the snow come down from the comfort of his Franklin Square home on Monday, running to a nearby window to point out the storm to his father, Michael Sperduto, between episodes of “Paw Patrol” and “Team Umizoomi.”

“He’s got a busy schedule,” Michael joked.

Students in the Sewanhaka Central High School District also got the day off from school due to the storm, but students in the Elmont and Franklin Square elementary school districts had to attend classes remotely.

The worst of the storm, which was still raging when the Herald went to press Monday night, was supposed to come between 10 a.m. and 11 p.m. that day, with Franklin Square and Elmont expected to get up to 24 inches of the cold, white substance by Tuesday morning.

The South Shore will be hit the hardest, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran said at a news conference on Sunday, urging residents to stay off the road. 

“Wind is going to play a significant role in this storm,” she said. “We’re talking about blizzard-like conditions … It’s going to be heavy, wet snow with a lot of wind.”

As a result, service on the Long Island Rail Road was temporarily suspended, with the last trains leaving between 2:30 and 3:30 p.m., and the Nassau Inter-County Express Bus system suspended all service beginning at 1 p.m.

Travel bans were also possible on roadways such as the Long Island Expressway as road conditions worsen, and John F. Kennedy International Airport officials reported that 83 percent of its flights had been canceled.