The nor'easter that parked itself off the coast this week is spending Saturday doing exactly what the forecasts promised: driving rain in waves, gusty northeast wind, and water piling up against both shores. If your weekend had plans in it, some of them have moved, a few are gone, and a surprising number are carrying on indoors. Here is where everything stands as of Saturday morning, from the venues themselves.
The warnings run through Sunday evening
The National Weather Service office at Upton has a coastal flood warning up for the shorelines of both counties, north shore included, through 6 p.m. Sunday, with the worst flooding arriving around the times of high tide. A high surf advisory runs even longer, through 8 p.m. Sunday, and the rip current risk stays dangerous all weekend. The practical translation: shore roads that always flood will flood, the ocean is not for swimmers or surfers casual about their lives, and the beaches are for looking, briefly, from somewhere dry.
Closed or called off
The Long Island Fair went dark for Saturday. The 184-year-old agricultural fair at Old Bethpage Village Restoration, which opened its three-day run Friday, announced it will stay closed today and will decide by 4 p.m. whether Sunday's final day happens; the call will be posted to the fair's social accounts. If the fair loses Sunday too, a year of pie contests and prize vegetables goes home unjudged.
Belmont Park called off live racing for both Saturday and Sunday, a painful pause for a track that just reopened its rebuilt grandstand to sold-out crowds. Anyone who bought tickets through Ticketmaster, FEVO or the track's own sales office can get a refund. The Hamptons Marathon, which had been set for this weekend, was canceled outright earlier in the week.
New dates to write down
Most of the weekend did not disappear. It relocated to October and November, which is the storm's one favor to your calendar:
The car show billed as Long Island's largest, at TOBAY Beach, moved to Saturday, October 3, per the Town of Oyster Bay. The Syosset Street Fair, which would have taken over downtown Syosset on Sunday, jumped all the way to November 15, according to the chamber of commerce that runs it. The Sag Harbor American Music Festival shifted its performances to October 1 through 4, and Greenport's Maritime Festival, which saw this coming a week ago, is now October 16 through 18.
Still on the calendar
Indoors, the weekend survives. The Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame's documentary film festival continues in Stony Brook, including Saturday's premiere of the film on Long Island's overlooked hip-hop history. Bayville Scream Park's posted schedule still lists noon to 11 tonight and noon to 10 Sunday for its haunted season, though an outdoor scream park in a coastal flood warning is a check-before-you-drive proposition if ever one existed. Anywhere you are headed today, the venue's own page knows more than a printed schedule does.
And one piece of weekend business concluded early, indoors in spirit if not in fact: the Ducks closed out the Atlantic League Championship Series in Central Islip on Friday night before the worst of the storm arrived, sweeping their way to a fifth title. That celebration needed no rain date.
The back half
The warnings expire Sunday evening, which is the storm's way of saying the weekend's second act should improve as it goes. Sunday plans deserve a morning check rather than a cancellation tonight. And if the reshuffle left your Saturday empty, October just got crowded: a car show on the 3rd, music in Sag Harbor through the 4th, a maritime festival in Greenport at mid-month, and a street fair in Syosset when the leaves are already down.



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