There was another long thread the other day about the National Guard getting called out to rescue hundreds of stranded motorists on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. On that thread, one of the complaints was that the highway WAS NOT closed down.
Go figure.
Get real, folks. This was a massive snowstorm that dropped 28+ inches of snow in the most densely populated place in the U.S. You can't plow streets, and fire/EMS can't respond to emergencies, if you have the streets blocked by thousands of cars stuck in the snow.
My favorite part is the FReepers who live in Texas or other southern states with no experience with snow emergencies who claim that such “curtailment of liberty” would never fly in their home state.
Banning motor vehicle travel during emergencies like this is simply common sense. In a better world, the authorities would not have to tell people that.