Posted on 12/11/2009 8:37:20 AM PST by OldDeckHand
More than 100 motorists are stranded on the Thruway between Dunkirk and the Pennsylvania border, locked in by blowing snow since 1:30 a.m. when the Thruway closed.
State police have managed to make contact with many motorists, and "there are no medical emergencies at this time," one trooper told The Buffalo News.
Many motorists stuck in the snow have been in contact with state police by cell phone. State police on ATVs and Chautauqua County Sheriff's deputies on snowmobiles are trying to reach the stranded motorists.
"We can't get aviation up in the air because of the poor visibility. But anyone who knows of someone stranded with a serious medical condition should call our headquarters at 716-836-0240," State Police Capt. Michael P. Nigrelli told The Buffalo News.
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Thanks.
Food, water, blankets, warm clothing, heat packs/sterno, and a full fuel tank are all useful. Having a good cell phone and a 12v adapter for it would be helpful in most places also.
I grew up in Avon, south of Rochester.
I remember the blizzard of 66, Oswego got 102” don’t remember our total, I delivered papers, served Mass at an empty church, and went home, cause school was closed. LOL, had to walk up hill both ways /s
After I moved to Phoenix, I’d joke that I used to live under the snow flake they put on the weather map at Thanksgiving.
Lake effect snow !
Thanks for answering about the 72 hour kit.
Even Fema is encouraging preparedness these days. Disasters happen all the time, we have been lulled into complacency and laziness. We automatically jump into our cars in the morning and expect the world to be the same today as it was yesterday.
guess what?
it won’t!
YOU are responsible for your own safety and well-being.
Hehe heh, I lived in Fredonia for a while way back when, and that stretch of I-90 west of Buffalo is not a grand place to be stranded.
I’ve driven that stretch through some snowstorms and it wasn’t fun!
(Did you know that there was a time not long ago when the exit ramp into Fredonia went through a shopping center right after you paid the toll? It was not a developed area back then.)
“I remember the Blizzard of 1977”
Me too, FRiend. I was a student at UB at the time, living off of Bailey, near Minnesota.
And how about that freaky ice storm the following winter?
I moved from Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada mountains to Alaska in 1992, in Tahoe it can snow every month of the year and in the winter a good snowfall is 3 to 5 feet or more in a 24 hour period.
Here in Wasilla about 35 miles north of Anchorage the most I have ever seen is 7-10 inches in one day but in the last couple of years a normal amount once a week is about 3 inches.
There are parts of Alaska like down near Whittier and Valdez that get 85 feet(not inches) of snow annually but ironically when the lower 48 shuts down from a storm Alaska is usually having a heat wave, go figure.
Seriously?!? LOL!!!!
Oh yes, there was a drive-thru Kodak film hut where you could drop off and pick up your photos right after you paid the Thruway toll.
:-)
The stores were on your left after the toll booth- you had to drive through the shopping plaza’s parking lot in order to get to the main street, which may have been Central Avenue, if I recall correctly.
When you got to that road, Dunkirk was to the right and Fredonia to the left.
Northern California is full of those types. They move here from the bay area and places like Sacramento when they retire, having only seen snow once a year when they go skiing, they buy a 4 wheel drive and the first snow of the year they run off the road because they were driving way to fast for the conditions. They learn fast but unfortunately we get a new crop in every year or so.
Well, certainly one for the RAT voters stuck on the thruway. I wish someone would interview them, stuck in their cars, and ask them if this if global warming caused this.
LOL!!!
Well, I guess it was convenient!
I also remember the ice storm. Everyone on our road lost electricity for a week. Schools were closed for a week. We took turns bailing water out of the sump pump hole and dumping it into the staionary tubs to keep the basement from flooding. Back then nobody had generators , and hardly anyone had woodstoves.
We spent alot of that week at a friends house because they were on a main line that had electricity.
Last year we had the ice storm here in NH that we lost power for 3 days. We were lucky some people in NH & MA lost it for 17 days. However, most people around here now have either a wood stove or a generator or both.
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