I saw that on TV
I am from Buffalo, and I thought “they closed the road for THAT..???” That’s a typical morning commute here
LOL!!!
DC shuts down with the first sign of a snowflake.
Sounds like someone in the VA state government wants to make the new governor look bad
And yeah, the snow is wetter there and tends to form ice much more easily, so there is that factor as well.
LOL! Right. Over Christmas, I-80 was shut down for nearly 3 days from Reno to Colfax CA. Donner Pass measuring station had over sixteen feet of snow. And wind. Lots of wind a few days later.
LOL, I was stuck in Rochester back around March of 03’, 24”. X44 at the Burger King rest stop. They ran out of food, but the coffee was free. Add to that, same storm, when I was in Syracuse, I jack knifed and almost got crushed by 18 wheelers doing 55+ through the snow and ice. To say I was scared $h!tless is an under statement. I was driving my Jimmy 1500 pick up and 16’ trailer to the Henrietta Dome. The next day I got out, but turned around and went back home. There was no way to get in, they turned back all non emergency vehicles. The next day it was open again, but I wasn’t going back for only one day. LOL, I would have had to shovel out a parking place.
Drivers in Northern Virginia just don’t handle these conditions very well.
I grew up in Orchard Park.
The problem is they may not have any rock salt either.
The roads got packed down with snow that turned to ice.
Then you get a couple accidents and the traffic backed up for miles. IF you are already on the highway there is no where to go if you not near an exit.
Do they still you snow blowers on rt 33(I thing it was the Kensington expressway) from the airport to downtown? I remember them blowing the snow into dump trucks driving next to the snow blower. Almost as stupid as the “Skyway” section of route 5 along the lake down to Lackawanna.
Yes. In Ohio we call it “March weather.”
I grew up in a little town a few miles south of Buffalo that was one of the Thruway exits. When they shut down the Thruway (often), travelers were taken off the highway to the next closest exist. We had strangers sleeping in our church pews for two or three days at a time.
I lived in Alaska for 20 years after high school. NOTHING in the Anchorage area of Alaska was as extreme or treacherous as Buffalo lake-effect snow blizzards.