Record snow on Long Island forces plows to spend more than 50 hours on clearing single Target lot
NY Post
It was all hands on deck in a coastal Long Island town that landed in the record books over Monday’s blizzard — with a local plow operator spending more than 50 hours clearing a single Target lot.
“I’ve never seen it this bad before,” said Gershon Benegas, an Islip contractor who has plowed snow for commercial businesses and their parking lots for more than 10 years.
Benegas said plowing the nearby Target’s parking lot usually takes him about 25 hours after a major storm.
But he said he’s already spent more than 50 hours trying to clear it after the latest blizzard — with plenty of more work still ahead of him.
The National Weather Service recorded 31 inches of snow at the Islip Airport in Suffolk County — handily beating the town’s previous record of around 27 inches from 2013.
“In my 27 years of life, this is by far the most snow I’ve ever seen,” said Catalina Rojo, a healthcare worker who lives up the street from the airport.
Warner Bros. Discovery said Tuesday it was considering a new bid from Paramount Skydance without disclosing the value of the deal, as the CBS owner makes a last-ditch effort to thwart Netflix from buying the coveted Hollywood studio.
When Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine four years ago, there was never much doubt that Roman Ratushnyi would take up arms. The 24-year-old was a seasoned independence activist, having been a teenage leader of the street protests that toppled Kyiv’s pro-Kremlin government in 2014.
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA Director John Ratcliffe are briefing eight senior members of Congress Tuesday afternoon on possible US attacks on Iran — shortly after President Trump claimed to network news anchors over lunch that Tehran “desperately wants a deal.”
Bill Maher and musician John Mellencamp discussed Monday about how out of touch wealthy liberal celebrities are with everyday working Americans.
Two of slain Hollywood director Rob Reiner’s children have reportedly stopped paying the legal bills for their brother Nick, who is charged in the fatal stabbing of their famous parents in Los Angeles.
Dr. Peter Attia is stepping down from CBS News just weeks after being named as a contributor under boss Bari Weiss – following the recent release of Epstein files showing his chummy relationship over hundreds of emails with the late financier and sex offender, The Post has learned.
Blizzard-battered New York City is set to get slammed with even more snow this week — proving the groundhog was right.
Mexico has quietly shipped nearly 100 suspected cartel drug traffickers to the US to stand trial charges after President Trump branded the groups foreign terrorist organizations last year — and pressured the Mexican government to cooperate.
With a chipped front tooth and blood spilling from his mouth, wrapped in the American flag and elation, 24-year-old Jack Hughes is already an Olympic legend.
The Dow “crossed 50,000 for the first time on February 6, 2026 — fittingly on the 115th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth,” cheers Michael Toth at Civitas Outlook. “When Reagan took office, the Dow was basically dead. The index stood at 950.”