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Some residents in Nassau walked over to the grocery store to pick up essentials during blizzard conditions.

News 12’s Caren Pinto checked out the conditions at a shopping center in Levittown.

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Let's turn our attention now to our weather as we remain on storm watch because we have a serious storm heading our way. We're over here in the weather center with meteorologist Crystal Ellis. So, Crystal, what do people need to know about the exact timing here for this? Uh, the worst of it's going to be tomorrow night into the evening, late evening into tomorrow. The overnight hours. That's when we're going to see the worst wind gusts and the most widespread heaviest rainfall. But that doesn't mean before then we won't be experience some turbulent weather. So looking at our storm watch, we do have a high wind watch and a flood watch. 2 to 4 inches of rain could see even more than that in localized areas. So that will lead to flooding. You definitely want to try to stay home if you can for tomorrow. The winds also between 25 and 4540 MPH sustained gusting to 55 even 60 MPH for tomorrow. So that actually could lead to dangerous wind, damaging winds and uh down trees down power lines. So you definitely want to be weather aware for tomorrow, as we look into tomorrow afternoon, the winds start to pick up a little bit and we'll have some scattered downpours throughout the area as we step into the afternoon. Those downpours again, wherever they set up, that's where we'll have the most rainfall falling and check out the winds gusting up to 3035 MPH throughout the area. And this is around 4 p.m. and that's not even the worst of it as we keep going on. The future cast, you can see the rain is just training on in. It's continuing to come down in heavy bouts in the, in the red, orange and yellow shades and the wind is not going anywhere as well. In fact, it's going to be increasing as we step into the later hours. So here we are 11 pm, wind gusts 47 MPH in Smithtown, 47 Rocky Point and the rain continues to fall. So it's going to be a pretty serious storm for tomorrow. And then in your overnight hours, this is where we're seeing the worst of the wind gusts 52 in Rocky Point. And again, depending on where these fans set up will be the worst of the flooding potential. Looking at your Monday morning, it's still hanging on the winds eventually will calm down. And so does the rain. However, we will have a if you wrap around showers for Monday morning and blustery conditions for the second half of your Monday. So we are on storm watch Sunday afternoon, Sunday night and into your Monday morning before things begin to calm down, it gets colder, the wind sticks around and it's feeling like much more typical December weather highs in the forties for the rest of the work week. But at least it's quiet.

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Nassau residents head out for essentials during snowstorm

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Nassau County may not have been hit as hard as Suffolk but still plenty of snow News 12 Long Island's Caren pinto is in Levittown with the very latest Karen Antoinette we are in a shopping center here in the shop Rite parking lot. We've seen the plow go through multiple times here uh, that it's still a lot of snow on the ground because all of that ice underneath, they are pushing it off to the side. You can see this massive snow pile behind me. Photojournalist here today, Anthony Zito, he's about 65. He's a tall guy and this is still About 4ft higher than Anthony so a lot of snow being pushed off to the side. But we noticed that folks are heating officials advice. A lot of the shoppers here today. They actually walked here. We caught up with one couple who was walking to the gas station to get some gas or their snowblower that they were going to use for the first time. Today. We also caught up with some shoppers who walked here who were going to get their last minute essentials that they forgot to get yesterday. But the grocery store is still open now if we pitched on out to the road there are still some people on the road. They are going very slowly. The visibility is a little bit better. But one of the shoppers we spoke to, he walked here and he wanted to remind people to keep their lights on because he was a little nervous that people couldn't see him and that he couldn't see all of the cars. So that's important advice. As we head into the evening, we could take a lesson from him. The cops stopped me. Yeah, the cops stopped me because he goes, you know, are you okay? I'm like, yeah, I'm just walking to the store and I said by the way, doing this kind of weather, the car is supposed to have their lights on so you can see what's coming. But the cars don't have the lights on. Cleanup over sidewalk and driveway to making sure we'll be able to drive tomorrow. So we're going to continue to monitor these road conditions for you and bring you live updates all night on news 12 long island. So for now, back to you guys.

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