LIers stranded amid canceled flights
Some families couldn’t make it back from midwinter break vacations after their flights got cancelled.
“We're stuck in Florida right now,” said Scott Boudin, 50, the morning show producer for "Elvis Duran and the Morning Show."
Boudin, who lives in Old Bethpage, was returning from a Caribbean cruise with his two daughters, age 14 and 18, along with Boudin’s girlfriend and her 8-year-old, when they found out their flight back to New York on Sunday had been cancelled.
His 14-year-old attends ninth grade in the Plainview-Old Bethpage school district, which cancelled all activities Monday.
“She’s ecstatic,” Boudin said in a phone interview from a hotel balcony in Jacksonville, Florida. “Kids love it because, you know, a couple extra days of no school.”
But, he said, “I love being in New York when it's snowing, so I kind of feel like I'm missing out.”
Besides, he said, Jacksonville’s temperature was 38 on Monday morning, and since he can’t work remotely, his radio show colleagues were scrambling to cover for him.
“I wanted to rent a car to drive back up to New York, but there were no car rentals to be had,” he said. “The only flight I was able to put back was out of Jacksonville for Wednesday morning, so we are keeping our fingers crossed that that does not get canceled as well.”
Maura McDermott covers education. Since joining Newsday in 2012, she also has worked on the investigations team and covered real estate and the business of health care.
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