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bubba0825 : 11/15/2018 6:00 pm
So the Port Athority is closed cause of over crowding and the GWB is closed because of accidents. Good luck getting home tonight if you live in the tristate area
Closed due to over crowding?  
section125 : 11/15/2018 6:07 pm : link
That's a new one.

Best wishes to those trying to get home.
Only 2nd and 3 rd levels  
spike : 11/15/2018 6:11 pm : link
Due to bus delays
PA  
spike : 11/15/2018 6:12 pm : link
Looks like a sardine can
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Downtown Manhattan to Staten Island  
Drewcon40 : 11/15/2018 6:12 pm : link
any advice?
RE: Downtown Manhattan to Staten Island  
bubba0825 : 11/15/2018 6:15 pm : link
In comment 14178977 Drewcon40 said:
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any advice?


The ferry?
SI ferry  
spike : 11/15/2018 6:17 pm : link
On modified schedule, every 20 minutes
Good call...  
Drewcon40 : 11/15/2018 6:21 pm : link
...would be a bit of a walk to my car but better than sitting in the downtown loop.

Thank you.
Roads are bad up in the New Haven area  
UConn4523 : 11/15/2018 6:23 pm : link
it’s like they forgot to put salt down. Took me 20/25 minutes to pick my daughter up at daycare that’s 2.5 miles away. Cars slipping everywhere, jam packed roads.
Trying to get home from stupid florham Park  
djm : 11/15/2018 6:26 pm : link
To Norwood nj. Four hours and counting. Four. Get that? Four.

I hope my boss is happy. He hates telecommuting even today. Couldn’t work from home right? Asshole.
Route 10 in morris county is closed  
micky : 11/15/2018 6:29 pm : link
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Twitter video of GWB crash scene  
shyster : 11/15/2018 6:33 pm : link
More fun than humans should be allowed to have.

Wreckage has now been cleared; still major backup, of course.

Video is labeled sensitive due to mild profanity from the video taker.

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RE: Route 10 in morris county is closed  
baadbill : 11/15/2018 6:38 pm : link
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wtf is going on out there? ... so glad I retired last year... lol ... we have zero snow in my part of Ocean County
RE: Route 10 in morris county is closed  
schabadoo : 11/15/2018 6:39 pm : link
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80W too.

They obviously didn't brine anywhere. Three hours, have moved five miles.
Literally stuck  
redwhiteandbigblue : 11/15/2018 6:52 pm : link
In my car in a parking lot in Middletown NY. Snowing like crazy. Cannot move my car. No taxi service picks up to take me to a hotel so conserving gas and spending the night in the car. Sucks.
Was stuck on Post Road heading from White Plains to Scarsdale  
The_Boss : 11/15/2018 7:04 pm : link
A ride that normally takes 10 minutes. Had an awful turtle head to deal with. I determined I wasn’t going to make it. I had the passenger take over “driving”. Slipped down a side street and dropped anchor on somebody’s snow covered mums in their backyard. Luckily for me, they were probably stuck in traffic somewhere else and not home. Anyway I wiped my ass with some of their junk mail I took from their mailbox and went back to my car. It was only maybe 40 yards ahead of where I jumped out!
borther in law stuck in the city  
nygiants16 : 11/15/2018 7:11 pm : link
my wifes friends husband has taken 2 amd a half houra to travel 5 miles in sparta...

glad i own a car wash and can close and not go anywhere
RE: RE: Route 10 in morris county is closed  
micky : 11/15/2018 7:22 pm : link
In comment 14179009 baadbill said:
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wtf is going on out there? ... so glad I retired last year... lol ... we have zero snow in my part of Ocean County



Cars can't make up the hill past salam rd. Stuck for for 4 hours. Ridiculous it wasnt pre treated.
RE: RE: RE: Route 10 in morris county is closed  
nygiants16 : 11/15/2018 7:31 pm : link
In comment 14179056 micky said:
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wtf is going on out there? ... so glad I retired last year... lol ... we have zero snow in my part of Ocean County




Cars can't make up the hill past salam rd. Stuck for for 4 hours. Ridiculous it wasnt pre treated.


the hill going west by la strada is horrible as well..
Live on a side road in Chatham NJ (I left work early)  
ChathamMark : 11/15/2018 7:37 pm : link
that leads to another road that leads to Main St., then to Route 24. Cars backed up on my road since 4PM. 7:30PM now and cars are moving at a snails pace. I did a pass of my sidewalk with my snowblower at the slowest speed and passed 5 cars.
People in NJ  
Mr. Nickels : 11/15/2018 7:49 pm : link
cannot drive.
NYT:  
UESBLUE : 11/15/2018 8:20 pm : link
At 6 p.m., Marlyne Page, an executive assistant who works in Midtown, had already been in line for an hour but was still a block away from the entrance to the bus terminal and the bus to Passaic. “And this isn’t even a real storm,” she said. “Someone didn’t plan.”

She was wet, cold and quietly furious, but exuding calm. “I’m not going to explode, because what would be the point?“ she said. “Unless someone cuts in front of me.”
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RE: Live on a side road in Chatham NJ (I left work early)  
schabadoo : 11/15/2018 8:50 pm : link
In comment 14179082 ChathamMark said:
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that leads to another road that leads to Main St., then to Route 24. Cars backed up on my road since 4PM. 7:30PM now and cars are moving at a snails pace. I did a pass of my sidewalk with my snowblower at the slowest speed and passed 5 cars.


I was there around 3pm. They were already closing side roads due to cars spinning out.
I completely understand  
aimrocky : 11/15/2018 8:58 pm : link
Taking it slow and safe, but the morons driving up hill at 10 mph should beaten over the head with hammer. I saw a line of cars get stuck because the dick hole leading the line putt putted up hill, not allowing anyone to build momentum.
Crazy in North Jersey.  
bceagle05 : 11/15/2018 9:03 pm : link
I was lucky enough to get home in an hour (usually a 15 minute ride), but folks heading to the northwest part of the state are barely moving. One of my coworkers checked into a hotel for a night, others have been on the road for 4+ hours.
I feel bad for all those enduring the hazardous driving conditions.  
Diver_Down : 11/15/2018 9:03 pm : link
If it is any consolation, we'll be feeling the effect of the same weather system. The forecast is calling for a low of 40 overnight. I may have to turn on my heat.
I've literally  
MookGiants : 11/15/2018 9:08 pm : link
never seen anything like today as far as commute in my area. Not even when it snowed 33 inches in 24 hours march of 2017. I have no idea why my area wasnt prepared at all for this snow, they knew it was coming for a week.

My 13 minute commute took me 3 hours. I left work at 315. On a bad day i'd be home by 335. I was 2 miles from my house at 4 oclock and it took me 2 full hours to go 2 miles. I no doubt could have walked home quicker. Not one fucking plow anywhere.
RE: I've literally  
Del Shofner : 11/15/2018 9:11 pm : link
In comment 14179161 MookGiants said:
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never seen anything like today as far as commute in my area. Not even when it snowed 33 inches in 24 hours march of 2017. I have no idea why my area wasnt prepared at all for this snow, they knew it was coming for a week.

My 13 minute commute took me 3 hours. I left work at 315. On a bad day i'd be home by 335. I was 2 miles from my house at 4 oclock and it took me 2 full hours to go 2 miles. I no doubt could have walked home quicker. Not one fucking plow anywhere.


It's crazy. I was at meetings in midtown until about 7:30. People at the meetings who live in NJ were hearing in disbelief that they likely weren't getting home tonight.
I'm still at my office.  
Mr. Bungle : 11/15/2018 9:19 pm : link
Should I even bother trying to go to Port Authority tonight?
Kudos to these New Yorkers/New Jerseyans  
spike : 11/15/2018 9:24 pm : link
who kept calm during the chaotic commute home.
RE: I'm still at my office.  
spike : 11/15/2018 9:25 pm : link
In comment 14179172 Mr. Bungle said:
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Should I even bother trying to go to Port Authority tonight?


"Only limited buses have been able to get to PABT due to weather conditions, leading to overcrowding.Commuters urged to seek rail/ferry alternatives to NJ. [07]" - Port Authority

You can forget about taking the buses.
RE: I'm still at my office.  
Mr. Nickels : 11/15/2018 9:26 pm : link
In comment 14179172 Mr. Bungle said:
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Should I even bother trying to go to Port Authority tonight?


Nope
RE: Was stuck on Post Road heading from White Plains to Scarsdale  
B in ALB : 11/15/2018 9:27 pm : link
In comment 14179037 The_Boss said:
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A ride that normally takes 10 minutes. Had an awful turtle head to deal with. I determined I wasn’t going to make it. I had the passenger take over “driving”. Slipped down a side street and dropped anchor on somebody’s snow covered mums in their backyard. Luckily for me, they were probably stuck in traffic somewhere else and not home. Anyway I wiped my ass with some of their junk mail I took from their mailbox and went back to my car. It was only maybe 40 yards ahead of where I jumped out!


Hahaha! Great job!
Now THAT...  
JohnG in Albany : 11/15/2018 9:37 pm : link
is a clutch 40 yard completion!
Took  
noro9 : 11/15/2018 10:19 pm : link
Me 4.5 hours to go 10 miles on Saw Mill. I'm sleeping in a hotel lobby tonight
I've been driving for 25 years  
BUgiantfan : 11/15/2018 10:20 pm : link
and today was the worst driving conditions I have ever experienced. Here in Hershey, PA, the roads were- and still are- a disaster. I can't blame the road crews- they pretreated with salt and the plows were out in force but the roads were more slippery than anything I've ever felt.

My 4 mile commute took me two hours today (it's normally 5 minutes).
So I guess the meme making fun of southern  
Metnut : 11/15/2018 10:44 pm : link
drivers for not being able to handle small amounts of snow can die. It’s not and never has been about the drivers.

It’s about the condition of the road and the response of the localities to the snow. Bad response to the snow? Even a small amount of snow crushed nyc.
I left my Midtown office at 550  
Bobby Humphrey's Earpad : 11/15/2018 11:07 pm : link
walked into my house basically 4 hours later. Should've taken up the boss offer to stay at a hotel in the city. Never seen such a colossal fuckup - there are still buses stuck on the turnpike.
RE: RE: I'm still at my office.  
Mr. Bungle : 11/15/2018 11:25 pm : link
In comment 14179178 spike said:
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Should I even bother trying to go to Port Authority tonight?



"Only limited buses have been able to get to PABT due to weather conditions, leading to overcrowding.Commuters urged to seek rail/ferry alternatives to NJ. [07]" - Port Authority

You can forget about taking the buses.

Well, I didn't listen. I left work just before 11, got to Port Authority, and got on a bus in about 10 minutes.

Just waiting it out at the office really paid off.
Landed at LaGuardia over two hours ago  
Oscar : 11/15/2018 11:26 pm : link
Live a few miles away. Still at LaGuardia.
Ended up taking me 5 hours to go about 45 miles  
djm : 11/15/2018 11:28 pm : link
And I honestly consider myself lucky. My boss called me and apologized which was awesome of him to do. Also working from home tomorrow...a little empathy and recognition goes a long way with me.
Work at 4WTC  
Giant John : 11/15/2018 11:39 pm : link
Left office today at 2:15. Took path to Harrison then drove to Chatham. Arrive home at 11:15. Screw all who did not have the skill or vehicle to handle driving in that weather. Also not sure if it’s a state road but it was not plowed or salted at all. Probably still isn’t. Somebody should get fired.
Freaking nightmare.
Oh yes...  
Giant John : 11/15/2018 11:42 pm : link
280 was closed too.
I’ve never seen anything  
bubba0825 : 11/16/2018 6:39 am : link
Like that, my brother in law was stuck on the gwb for 2.5 hours and then they closed the palisades parkway, didn’t make it hone to 1045 when he left upper Manhattan at 345
NYC forecast  
UESBLUE : 11/16/2018 6:54 am : link
was for coating to 1 inch and we got 6. Similar screwups all over tri state. Thanks StormTracker.
RE: Work at 4WTC  
Drewcon40 : 11/16/2018 7:08 am : link
In comment 14179283 Giant John said:
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Left office today at 2:15. Took path to Harrison then drove to Chatham. Arrive home at 11:15. Screw all who did not have the skill or vehicle to handle driving in that weather. Also not sure if it’s a state road but it was not plowed or salted at all. Probably still isn’t. Somebody should get fired.
Freaking nightmare.


GiantJohn - I am at 7WTC and live in Staten Island. My bus stop is on Church Street. You know the nightmare when it isn't raining. Church street was a mess.
RE: NYC forecast  
LarmerTJR : 11/16/2018 7:32 am : link
I am pretty sure that the forecast was increased to 3-6 in the early morning yesterday. Regardless, there was more than an outside chance of 5 plus inches of snow. The city and states should have been ready regardless of the earlier forecasts.



In comment 14179323 UESBLUE said
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was for coating to 1 inch and we got 6. Similar screwups all over tri state. Thanks StormTracker.
Most forecasts for NYC were in the 1-3 range  
jcn56 : 11/16/2018 7:42 am : link
Once again, the powers that be gambled and bet wrong in an attempt to keep the costs of managing these storms down. Even at 3", there should have been more preemptive measures taken that would have significantly reduced the impact to travelers.

Not a surprise here in the city, it's a running theme with our current mayor, who if you changed his name to 'McCheese' would make a suitable McDonalds character, but that's about it.
Did the sanitation just not prepare !?  
TommytheElephant : 11/16/2018 8:05 am : link
In Westchester there wasn’t a salt spreader or plow out there
Took me over 3 hours to get from Purchase to new Rochelle
One of my co-workers took 8 hours to get from  
JonC : 11/16/2018 8:27 am : link
SoHo to Chappaqua!
Left office at 4:20 yesterday afternoon.  
Chris684 : 11/16/2018 9:24 am : link
Got to port authority and it was so crowded I couldnt even find my bus line. When I eventually did, I couldnt find the end of it.

Walked to the ferry which was cross honoring. Got on a 6pm boat to Port Imperial so I could at least get out of NYC.

There were no cabs at the cab stand so I eventually was able to get in an Uber around 7. About 200 bucks and 3 hours later I was home around 10.
RE: Most forecasts for NYC were in the 1-3 range  
MookGiants : 11/16/2018 9:32 am : link
In comment 14179332 jcn56 said:
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Once again, the powers that be gambled and bet wrong in an attempt to keep the costs of managing these storms down. Even at 3", there should have been more preemptive measures taken that would have significantly reduced the impact to travelers.

Not a surprise here in the city, it's a running theme with our current mayor, who if you changed his name to 'McCheese' would make a suitable McDonalds character, but that's about it.


I still have no idea how that clown got re-elected. I have yet to find someone who actually likes DeBlasio, pretty much universally hated. Maybe my experience is way off and i havent lived in the city for 6 years now but still have quite a few friends who live there and not one of them has a good thing to say about him, even democrats
Wow, sounds awful.  
Heisenberg : 11/16/2018 9:34 am : link
Here in CT the Merrit and 84 both got shut down at different points. It was a real mess. I had everyone that works for me go home at lunch and finish their days there.
Got home at midnight, walking the last five miles  
mikeinbloomfield : 11/16/2018 9:43 am : link
I wouldn't blame the drivers. I'd like to know whose idea it was to close route 280 without the local roads being plowed. People got stuck going up icy hills, then those roads were unusable too. Then nobody moved. My bus driver gave up in east orange, two towns away from where I live now.
NYT:  
UESBLUE : 11/16/2018 10:29 am : link
piece on entire fiasco:
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RE: I’ve never seen anything  
djm : 11/17/2018 12:02 pm : link
In comment 14179321 bubba0825 said:
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Like that, my brother in law was stuck on the gwb for 2.5 hours and then they closed the palisades parkway, didn’t make it hone to 1045 when he left upper Manhattan at 345


I ended up getting stuck for an extra 2 hours in nanuet because I was scared of taking the palisades parkway. I had already traveled about 40 miles through a disasterous 287 north which took me two hours when I got to exit 14 on the thruway. It was around 5 pm— I had come to far and was kind of feeling like I was dodging a huge bullet. Waze said the PIP was slower than shit rolling uphill so I decided to get off exit 14 and travel the side roads of nanuet NY. Disaster. I was 6 miles from home and it took me an another 3 hours.

The longer you were out in this storm the more you were at risk of disaster.

Ps the reason why the was so bad for everyone is because of the timing of the storm and the fact that not a single road was salted or plowed. Make no mistake this was an infrastructure problem more than anything else.
The fact that not a single road was salted or plowed  
jcn56 : 11/17/2018 12:15 pm : link
wasn't an infrastructure problem, it was a planning problem. They went in assuming that the storm wouldn't be too bad, and by the time they got word from the NWS that it was going to be worse than originally anticipated, it was too late to engage the plows.
RE: RE: I’ve never seen anything  
steve in ky : 11/17/2018 12:25 pm : link
In comment 14180377 djm said:
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In comment 14179321 bubba0825 said:


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Like that, my brother in law was stuck on the gwb for 2.5 hours and then they closed the palisades parkway, didn’t make it hone to 1045 when he left upper Manhattan at 345



I ended up getting stuck for an extra 2 hours in nanuet because I was scared of taking the palisades parkway. I had already traveled about 40 miles through a disasterous 287 north which took me two hours when I got to exit 14 on the thruway. It was around 5 pm— I had come to far and was kind of feeling like I was dodging a huge bullet. Waze said the PIP was slower than shit rolling uphill so I decided to get off exit 14 and travel the side roads of nanuet NY. Disaster. I was 6 miles from home and it took me an another 3 hours.

The longer you were out in this storm the more you were at risk of disaster.

Ps the reason why the was so bad for everyone is because of the timing of the storm and the fact that not a single road was salted or plowed. Make no mistake this was an infrastructure problem more than anything else.


You live near Nanuet? That area is my old stomping grounds.
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djm : 11/17/2018 4:45 pm : link
In comment 14180392 steve in ky said:
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In comment 14179321 bubba0825 said:


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Like that, my brother in law was stuck on the gwb for 2.5 hours and then they closed the palisades parkway, didn’t make it hone to 1045 when he left upper Manhattan at 345



I ended up getting stuck for an extra 2 hours in nanuet because I was scared of taking the palisades parkway. I had already traveled about 40 miles through a disasterous 287 north which took me two hours when I got to exit 14 on the thruway. It was around 5 pm— I had come to far and was kind of feeling like I was dodging a huge bullet. Waze said the PIP was slower than shit rolling uphill so I decided to get off exit 14 and travel the side roads of nanuet NY. Disaster. I was 6 miles from home and it took me an another 3 hours.

The longer you were out in this storm the more you were at risk of disaster.

Ps the reason why the was so bad for everyone is because of the timing of the storm and the fact that not a single road was salted or plowed. Make no mistake this was an infrastructure problem more than anything else.



You live near Nanuet? That area is my old stomping grounds.
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Not too far — Norwood NJ. I said 6 miles from home but maybe that’s not accurate more like 10.
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