Posted on 01/09/2015 9:22:01 AM PST by george76
Severe weather has shut down a 132-mile stretch of the Thruway in western New York for the second time since the epic November snowstorm.
The Thruway Authority closed Interstate 90 at midnight Thursday from Exit 46 outside Rochester to Exit 61 at Ripley, on the Pennsylvania border 60 miles southwest of Buffalo.
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“The New York State Thruway’s closed, man.”
The Mohawks were seen shoveling snow onto the highway late last night.
Just imagine how bad it would be without all this Global Warming.
Never happened before... in NYS history. /s
I traveled that road many times in my 1967 VW. The windshield defroster was pitiful. I had to scrape the inside of the window with a scraper to see. I would like to say...don't try to compete with tractor trailers or crazy people who think the roads are clear.
Does caution exist...anymore?
Give Al Gore a shovel and tell the stupid s**t to get after it.
Maybe the Senecas. Mohawks are along the St. Lawrence River—Canada border, extreme north part of state.
Stupid Global Warming, BE MORE FUNNY!!!!
LOL. I thought of the same thing. Arlo guthrie just had that hipster voice thing going.
I know that section of the Thruway very well... Pretty in the Summer driving through the vineyards and watching Lake Erie show over the hills. The Winter driving though there... it just sucks.
I’ve driven through a couple of Lake Effect whiteout snowstorms on the thruway. You can get 30 miles down the road and it’s bare pavement. Just part of living there I guess.
It’s a conspiracy I tell ya;
Yes. Caution! Back in the day. Does it exist today?
Back in ‘86 I was going to visit friends in Ratfester (I am an RIT Grad) for Thanksgiving ... driving 90 from Buffalo to Rochester I spun out 3 times and did damage to all 4 sides of my car.
As a Navy Recruiter in 1988 I took a recruit to Buffalo to enlist. We left Buffalo at about 3:30 PM headed back to Jamestown, NY.
Ran into white out’s about Hamburg. Got off the Thruway onto Route 20 as the thruway was closed.
Drove on Rt. 20 to Fredonia at about 5 mph because I could see about 5 feet in front of the car.
About 5 miles outside Fredonia on Rt. 60 the road cleared and we arrived in Jamestown about 8 PM.
What a ride!
1967 VW. The windshield defroster was pitiful.
132 miles where global warming caused by man failed to hold off mother nature!
I can relate. Still, we survived because we knew the hazards.
My parents were from Syracuse; they would laugh themselves silly, at what constituted a “snow emergency” in Danbury ;)
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