This story should be a cautionary note to anyone travelling this winter in a potential snow zone. These folks were lucky that authorities were able to snowmobile in and give them gasoline to keep their heaters running through the night.
I need to put more Cliff Bars in the car.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/11/AR2009121102348.html?hpid=sec-nationSnow strands motorists on NY Thruway near Pa. lineBy CAROLYN THOMPSON
The Associated Press
Friday, December 11, 2009; 9:09 PM
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- More than 100 people who spent the night in snowbound cars and trucks on a closed stretch of New York State Thruway were guided off the highway Friday, but travel remained treacherous in the southwest corner of the state and into Pennsylvania.
52-mile stretch of Interstate 90 between Dunkirk, N.Y. and Erie, Pa., which was closed because of howling winds and blowing snow about 1:30 a.m. Friday.
"People were cold, they were hungry and they were tired."
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