Traveling home thru NYS most if not all roads were closed, what amazed me was the lack of information and lack of interest the troopers had in directions around these area’s. No detour signs, no information, no interest. NYC broadcasts where more interested in recieving phone calls about what you would have in your frig for the emergency rather than giving thousands of motorists the road closures and ways around them. Thousands of motorists wandering thru towns and villages aimlessly trying to find their way home, rediculous!
The 5 hours without power were spent trying to get info on the radio. We gave up. Most stations are out of NYC and don’t cover north of them.
We'd been driving in Minnesota and decided for some variety on the way back to California, so headed down I-29 through the area hit by the spring Missouri River floods.
The Iowa DOT detour signage sucked to the tune of 200 unneeded miles and four wasted hours of circling thru cornfields. We'd still be there if we were to follow their signs, if it hadn't been for a couple of traveling salesmen we hooked up with at a country gas station.....they were headed to Kansas City, as were we - "Follow us!" was the call of the day, and it worked - we ignored the 'road closed ahead' warnings and got thru just fine, as did all the local traffic..................found out later that the Iowa DOT didn't want to "stress" any one local country road with too much traffic, so this bullshit was all intentional.