[Road trip] North Country?

[Jim Hyla]

I had a number of patients come down from up north Friday and they said the roads were fine, that is 81 and11.

[jtwcornell91]

As it turned out, the only bad part was the Thruway within about an hour of Albany either way.  One semi jackknifed, another in a ditch, and a third on the side of the road.   ::uhoh::

Although driving on a thin layer of uncleared snow on 13 on the way back wasn't exactly fun either...

[CowbellGuy]

Well, if you're gonna bitch about that, I need to bitch about my brilliant idea to get a head start on Thursday and drive from New Haven to Ithaca. At the very least I should have left earlier than 1:20. The roads weren't all that atrocious, but of course everyone had to drive 25 mph on 84. Eventually, traffic dissipated and things started moving along. Mistake #2 was to take 17. Again, the roads were fine, but there was a big pileup a couple miles ahead of me and they stopped everyone westbound for about 50 minutes. Then they turned everyone around, had us cross the median and left us to our own devices. So everyone had to get off at the first exit and take a 40 mile detour on roads that haven't seen a plow since the Reagan administration. All this to get to the very next exit down the road. Then, when I finally got withiin 17 miles of Ithaca at Richford, 79 was closed due to downed power lines and trees, so I had to go to Owego and take 96 into Ithaca. Total travel time: 9 hours, 11 minutes averaging 34 mph.

[Al DeFlorio]

Imagine what it was like when 17 was a two-lane local road.;-)