The TV is showing a spot of trouble down in Virginia today. Snowed on I95 and traffic got stuck. One trucker was saying he was stuck for 5 hours, someone else claimed to be stuck for 14 hours. But, eventually traffic started to move, and the cars and their passengers made it out.
The newsies don’t seem to remember the blizzard of ’78 up here in Boston. It started to snow, and kept on snowing for three days. Rte 128 has a few modest grades, and they got too slippery for the trucks to get up. Traffic stopped moving and the snow kept falling. It got so bad that everybody abandoned their cars on 128 and walked out in the snow storm. That left 10 miles of 128, solid with abandoned cars with snow up to the roofs. Only the radio antennas showed. Best the public works people could do was start at both ends with tow trucks, and tow the cars out, one by one. It took ‘em a week to get 128 back to being a road.
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