After nearly 24 hours, most of 500 Nebraskans stranded on Pennsylvania Turnpike on way home or...

Priests hold an outdoor Mass for the passengers stranded on the Pennsylvania Turnpike Saturday. Nine busloads of Nebraskans who attended Friday's March for Life in Washington, D.C., were caught in the winter storm that has slammed the East Coast. All are safe.

POSTED: SUNDAY, JANUARY 24, 2016 12:00 AM | UPDATED: 12:25 AM, SUN JAN 24, 2016.
By Natasha Rausch / World-Herald staff writer

One day after hundreds of Nebraska and Iowa students took part in the March for Life in Washington, D.C., their “pro-life” signs were turned into sleds. Packed snow was shaped into church altars. Tree branches were made into crosses. And games and singing turned into multiple-hour events as the young people found ways to pass the time on the snow-covered Pennsylvania Turnpike.

Their buses were among 500 vehicles stranded along about 23 miles of Interstate 76 in the winter storm system that slammed the Eastern U.S. The Midlanders — all safe — became stuck Friday evening about two hours east of Pittsburgh, between Bedford and Somerset.

After nearly 24 hours, most of the roughly 500 stranded Nebraskans and Iowans were either on their way home or at area hotels for the night.

The snow in the vicinity was estimated by the Turnpike Authority to be 2 feet deep in spots by midday Saturday.

FULL story at link.