but, I am so thankful to be in my home and not on that highway.

I78 was backed up for 50 miles.

a few years before that. No warning at all on canned weekend radio, even the supposed emergency channel. And in case the photos don't tell you this never trust the truckers to have special gift in avoiding these pile ups. Every exit was slippery and blocked mostly by trucks. The car ahead of me had a couple changing their baby's diapers for their tailgate party. Police casually viewed the spectacle on the clear side(no one stupid enough to attempt the huge dividing ditch(see photo above). No help, no news. Once I blessed enough to get off on the next exit I stupidly skipped ahead on side roads, thought I was in the clear, returned to the thruway and got stuck again for the entire night.

Come morning a real live radio jockey came on air emoting about the fantastic ice storm and power losses in town until angry motorists phoned in about the hundreds of cars still stranded. You could hear a thousand yard stare from Mr. Morning happy. And that was it, totally ignored, not news or history, mostly because of the robot weekend.

I tried to find some way of communicating my critique to the state but it was plain nothing would ever be noted much less addressed without corpsicles- which happened later in the I78 trap, I believe.
The back roads were much safer all along. There is no way to clear long stretches on interstates and the divided construction allows no relief on wide stretches. Some people abandoned their vehicles for the nearby refuges which of course was probably frowned upon but it didn't look like they intended to do much until the morning began to melt the ice. Thank God it wasn't too cold.