The Wantagh-Seaford area was blanketed with about a foot of snow Wednesday and early Thursday causing local schools to close today.
The National Weather Service estimates snowfall totals of 14 inches for the nearby communities of Levittown and Merrick and 11 inches for Massapequa. Exact snowfall totals for Wantagh and Seaford were not available as of mid Thursday afternoon.
New York State Education law does not permit Regents makeups, so the students scheduled to take a New York State Regents Exam at , and MacArthur High School will now have to take the exams in June.