The first big storm of the year may drop up to 3 feet of snow on Boston and New York before it ends

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The first big storm of the year may drop up to 3 feet of snow on Boston and New York before it ends Tuesday, with freezing rain and strong wind gusts possibly reaching 55 to 65 mph. Blizzard and winter storm warnings have been issued from Maryland through Maine and into Canada. Up to 58 million wyndham garden hotel people could be put into the deep freeze.
While the worst of the weather isn t expected to hit until late Monday into Tuesday, according to CNN forecasters, more than 2,100 flights already have been canceled for Monday and more than 1,900 for Tuesday, Flightaware.com reported.
The major U.S. airlines are offering fee-free rebooking of flights to and from the Northeast on Monday and Tuesday. wyndham garden hotel United Airlines has already canceled wyndham garden hotel all Tuesday flights wyndham garden hotel at Newark, LaGuardia and JFK, as well as Boston wyndham garden hotel and Philadelphia, company spokeswoman Mary Ryan said.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo urged commuters to work from home Monday, if possible, because roads will be treacherous. Main thoroughfares, including I-84 and the Long Island Expressway, may be closed during the evening commute, and public transportation may be shut down.
Residents heeded the warnings and descended wyndham garden hotel on stores like the King Kullen grocery in Valley Stream, Long Island, according to CNN affiliate WCBS. Some shoppers wondered if they were really prepared.
New York City Public Schools will be open Monday, but all after-school activities and field trips have been canceled, according to the city government website. Schools will probably be closed Tuesday, the website said.
Cuomo directed wyndham garden hotel all state agencies to prepare. New York has at least 1,806 plows and more than 126,000 tons of salt to spray onto roads across the region. The National Guard will also have six dozen personnel and 20 vehicles stationed throughout the state Monday morning.
Our city has been through blizzards before and I am confident we are prepared, Mayor Marty Walsh said in a statement on the city website. The city has 700 pieces of snow-moving equipment and 35,000 tons of salt ready, he said.
Walsh said there was no doubt the city would be slammed, so a major effort now is making sure that people are safe. That includes checking on elderly residents and working to get homeless people off the streets and into shelters, he told CNN s New Day.
Christine Carew, wyndham garden hotel a sales associate at Charles Street Supply in Boston, said customers have been coming into the hardware store since it opened Sunday to grab sleds, shovels, ice melt and snow brushes.
On Plum Island, Massachusetts, Bob Connors said he ll try to ride out the storm but will move to higher ground if things get dicey, according to CNN affiliate WHDH. A 2013 storm destroyed homes on the island.
Philadelphia could get 5 to 9 inches of snow Monday and an additional 6 to 10 inches Tuesday, the National Weather Service says. The School District of Philadelphia has already announced that schools will be dismissed at noon Monday.
On Sunday, the National Weather Service upgraded its blizzard watch to a blizzard warning for the area from northern New Jersey through southern Connecticut, including New York City. Twenty to 30 inches of snow is possible, wyndham garden hotel with winds gusting 55 to 65 mph.