National Guard, Salvation Army Helping People Stranded On Turnpike

CBS Pittburgh ^ | 1-23 | CBSPit

[tcrlaf]

Literally thousands of people are trapped on the Penn Turnpike around the Alleghany Tunnel, including hundreds of kids from several states in charter buses that attended the March-For-Life rally in DC (ZERO press coverage, of course), and a couple of college sports teams, as well as hundreds of trucks, and cars.

Been listening to the Scanner feed of turnpike police for a couple of hours now, since my nephew is one of the cops in this mess. It's a real mess. They are trying to get food up there, and get people out.

Many have already spent one night on the mountain, and are looking at staying tonight, as well.

[Mears]

That is dreadful——and scary if you’re in one of those cars.

It happened to a friend of ours pre-cell phone days and he said it was a dreadful experience since he didn’t have a clue about what was going on.

He was there all night-——sitting and wondering.

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[tcrlaf]

Duquesne men's basketball team spent last night stuck on the highway, and is still there.

[tcrlaf]

Spent one of those kind of nights out on the Indiana turnpike once...

[sauropod]

Oh man!

I travel the turnpike fairly often. Can’t imagine how they are dealing with Laurel Mountain.

[USMCPOP]

I can still remember my Dad driving the family back to Ohio from New Jersey in a snowstorm on the Pensy Turnpike, at night. Even the truckers weren’t running. The car was a ‘63/’64 Chevy I think.

[tcrlaf]

LOTS of pics on Twitter, this is from WTAE-TV of a REAL Snowstorm Trooper

[mylife]

Its as if it has never snowed there before and folks were unaware that the snow was forcasted.

[tcrlaf]

The Right-to-life kids from several states built a snow altar, so they could hold mass this afternoon. This is cool...

[tcrlaf]

[mylife]

LOL!

That stuff looks like the wet stuff.

The worst kind.

[PghBaldy]

CNN has covered a bus that was stuck, with live interview.

[mylife]

That’s good packin snow!

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Just hung up with my sis in Philly. Said it was really coming down.

[Daniel Ramsey]

I know....

Back when i lived at Lake Tahoe i would see 3 to 5 feet of snow fall in one day, and yet Caltrans had it cleared in 24 hours so people could get to the casinos at Stateline.

Maybe they should commandeer a fleet of International corn harvesters, chain up the tires, add a giant propane tank and a fire cannon.

Hey its been done in Britain.....

[RegulatorCountry]

Depends upon your perspective. It’s the worst for driving and clearing the roads, but the best for snowballs, snowmen and snow forts.

[SE Mom]

Wow. So this is different than the one in Kentucky? I read about something similar there..

What a nightmare for these people. May God protect them.

[longfellowsmuse]

These are kids from my parish!

[RginTN]

Question, why weren’t these highways shut down. All knew a big snow event was coming

[RegulatorCountry]

The storm track changed rather quickly and unexpectedly. Southern PA was not in the crosshairs of the big accumulations as far as any forecast until fairly late in the game, with the snow already coming down.