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dorm at the security office and we could get them on arrival. With less than a quarter tank of gas, but with a cooler of drinks and sandwiches we settled back to wait. We piled on all the warm clothing we had in the trunk, and bundled up as best we could. We ran the engine (and heat) for 10 to 15 minutes at a time, waiting an hour between each brief respite.
1 got out in the weather to clear the windows and lights. We were stranded with an 18 wheeler behind us, (he had plenty of diesel and ran his engine with his light on all night); another with a piggy back beside us and another ahead of us; there was on car struck diagonally between the two trucks ahead of us. So even if we had four wheel drive, there was no place to go.
At 5:30 a.m. Tuesday morning, we heard a welcome sound — a heavy duty front loader (?) with chain and cable was getting the 18 wheelers to move. The miles ahead of stranded trucks and cars had been pulled out and the road lightly plowed. An hour and a half later we on our way to the Milford exit, only 16+ hours after our anticipated arrival. To our dismay, there was no electricity in all of northeastern Pennsylvania.
We arrived in Port Jervis, New York with fumes in our tank to get some of the last gasoline available in that area. We saw cars, trucks, 18 wheelers (and even 4-wheel drives) piled along the roads, both interstate and side. All the county roads in the area were closed an only emergency traffic allowed.
We had a much welcome breakfast and rest stop at Joe’s Coffee Shop and headed toward Duchess County New York. We took Route 9D to bypass the traffic on US 9 when the radio program we were listening to advised us that all county roads in Duchess County had been closed to all but emergency traffic. There were other cars headed north, so we continued on only to turn around within two miles. Several live wires were intertwined with a fallen tree stretched across the road.
On to US 9 — a police car was stopped by the traffic light, so we
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