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On the Long Island Expressway, Cold, Hungry and Stranded
The New York Times ^ | February 9, 2013 | NATE SCHWEBER and VIVIAN YEE

Posted on 02/09/2013 1:51:46 PM PST by PA Engineer

FARMINGVILLE, N.Y. — Lorna Jones decided to brave the blizzard on Friday, venturing onto the Long Island Expressway as the snow began piling up. So did many others here in Suffolk County.

They all came to regret it.

“It’s terrible. It’s cold. I don’t know how long I’m going to be here,” said Ms. Jones, 62, a nurse who stalled near the town of Brookhaven, less than a mile from her destination. “Are there any plans to help us?”

She said she had slept fitfully in her car, with no food or water, and only a bottle of Listerine next to her on the passenger seat.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: New York
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To: Betis70

I’m convinced those plow drivers lurk at the end of residential streets; waiting until homeowners are done clearing their driveways...then; laughing all the way; they plow the snow into a nigh impenetrable wall at the base of everyone’s driveway. It must be part of their official training, as they have been doing this for decades...


61 posted on 02/09/2013 2:58:54 PM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: mrsmel

As you said, most of the nurses are phenomenal, but the system doesn’t always work - information doesn’t flow or isn’t shared in a timely fashion, etc. Better to be safe than sorry.


62 posted on 02/09/2013 2:59:51 PM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: PA Engineer

REALLY ???!!!????

Replenishing mouthwash is worth (almost) freezing herself to death?

[Note, she didn’t get anything else, only a bottle of mouthwash.]


63 posted on 02/09/2013 3:00:15 PM PST by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: PA Engineer
There are just too many of them now

Enough to elect Obama TWICE.

64 posted on 02/09/2013 3:01:01 PM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: 9YearLurker

“How many Freepers would have slept overnight in their cars, temps in the 20’s, rather than walk less than a mile home?”

Less than zero. Sub-zero, you might say.

(Unless they’re infirm.)


65 posted on 02/09/2013 3:05:56 PM PST by Chad N. Freud (FR is the modern equivalent of the Committees of Correspondence. Let other analogies arise.)
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To: bravo whiskey

Driving north through Palm Beach county this afternoon I saw my first tesla.
What a P.O.S.


66 posted on 02/09/2013 3:06:15 PM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO))
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To: PA Engineer

Andrew doesn’t seem to have inherited any of his father’s gift for politics, just the last name.


67 posted on 02/09/2013 3:06:52 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: NoGrayZone

I’ve learned to watch the radar rather than listen to the ‘weatherman’...


68 posted on 02/09/2013 3:08:24 PM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Fresh Wind

And if you’re not packed into a snowbank—an 11-year-old boy died of CO poisoning in Boston today while warming up in the car he and his dad were shoveling out.


69 posted on 02/09/2013 3:10:32 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: NoGrayZone
Sorry, as much as I HATE to defend my fellow low info NY voters, the weather channel and everyone else was WRONG.

This may be helpful in the future. I keep Weather Underground Full Screen Weather up as a tab at all times. You can zoom down to your local radar and google earth image.

This is the only weather site that I follow for real time information (plus my own Davis Weather Station). I use Accuweather for extended forecasts, but take it with a grain of salt. Their temperature readings are usually off by 5 degrees.

There is no malice intended. Hypothetically, if you had called me from your location, I could have given you at least an hour warning to get out of Dodge from the realtime information provided at the link.

Hope this helps.

The woman's ignorance does not excuse her from keeping minimal winter preps in the car.
70 posted on 02/09/2013 3:15:37 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: PA Engineer

Weathermen sometimes get things wrong, who knew?


71 posted on 02/09/2013 3:16:15 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: PA Engineer

“Preppers ping and a modern parable on low information voters.”

Really. How long does it take to throw a few bags of peanuts, candy bars and jerky in a car for winter emergencies. Toss in a blanket and flashlight and you’re set till help comes.

Some people are helpless and have no idea how to take care of themselves. Maybe Lorna the liberal should wait for FEMA to show up with bags of ice.


72 posted on 02/09/2013 3:18:03 PM PST by sergeantdave (The FBI has declared war on the Marine Corps)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
A plan? Yeah, I think there was a plan to help..I think it was a notification...something along the lines of...

STAY OFF THE F&*KING ROAD!! A STORM IS COMING!!

It is getting harder and harder for me to abide idiots. 200 years ago these people died due to their stupidity. Now a days we risk good peoples lives to save these schmucks...

73 posted on 02/09/2013 3:21:05 PM PST by Fedupwithit (You gave him what he wanted. I gave him what he needed.)
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To: Fedupwithit
200 years ago these people died due to their stupidity.

Now we reward it.

74 posted on 02/09/2013 3:25:31 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: NoGrayZone

I hate those pucker drives home. I find my local weather people are tons better than the weather channel/national weather service.

They both missed snowfall totals. Friday morning NWS said 10-18”. Locals said 18-24. We got 31.


75 posted on 02/09/2013 3:31:08 PM PST by Betis70 ("Leading from Behind" gets your Ambassador killed)
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To: usmom

Nothing to do with her but back when I was younger I had a Jeep CJ5. Whenever a blizzard hit (don’t take much in NC) I’d drive up to the local hospital and help the other 4x4 volunteers take staff to and fro.

Gave us a good excuse to be out and about plus it was fun since I grew up in Upper Michigan.


76 posted on 02/09/2013 3:31:49 PM PST by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: Betis70

They “downgraded” us to 12-18 inches. We got 29!


77 posted on 02/09/2013 3:33:49 PM PST by NoGrayZone (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothing.)
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To: 9YearLurker
How many Freepers would have slept overnight in their cars, temps in the 20’s, rather than walk less than a mile home?

Tough call considering 62 years old, worsening conditions and possibility of getting hit by a car in the darkness. It really depends on the exact circumstances. I assume she did have gas to keep the engine and heater running? Was it one mile level and direct or up and down with lots of intersections, etc. I am not infirm nor slowed by my age all that much and have had situations in the mountains where I wasn't going to be covering 100 feet, much less 5,280. And I am a skier and off-roader.

78 posted on 02/09/2013 3:33:57 PM PST by steve86 (Acerbic by Nature, not Nurture™)
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To: Fresh Wind
Cars are gas-powered heaters. You can survive for quite a while that way, if you use your gas sparingly.

The danger is, if it's snowing, that the snow covers the exhaust pipe. That's what happened in the Blizzard of '78. A lot of stranded motorists died on Rte. 128.

I'm sure that thought never crossed this lady's mind.

79 posted on 02/09/2013 3:35:01 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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To: steve86; 9YearLurker

Just an FYI. The gas lines were the same as Sandy on Thursday into Thursday night.

When I went into work Friday, all the stations I passed were out of gas.


80 posted on 02/09/2013 3:36:49 PM PST by NoGrayZone (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothing.)
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