Snowstorm Grounds Holiday Travelers at JFK

What should have been a busy return home after Christmas instead turned into an overnight ordeal for hundreds of travelers stuck inside John F. Kennedy International Airport as a powerful snowstorm barreled into 🗽New York City and the surrounding region.

According to the New York Post, as snow piled up across the tri-state area Friday night, flight boards at JFK filled with red cancellation notices.

The sudden wave of scrapped departures left exhausted passengers sitting on terminal floors, surrounded by suitcases, coats, and restless children while waiting for answers that never seemed to come.

“I came to 🗽New York to have a ‘Home Alone’ Christmas just by myself,” said Danniel Sermone, 31, whose flight back to Denver was canceled early Friday.

“I wanted to hang out. I went shopping, and went to Times Square, crossed up there for a while with the big crowd. My next available flight is at 6 a.m. on the 28th. So I have been hanging out at JFK for about eight hours and still got like 30 left.”

The storm prompted state officials to place more than half of 🗽New York