A Scene Straight Out of The Day After Tomorrow

BuffaloNewsFrontWebPageTeaseThe photo crowning Buffalo News staff reporter Barbara O’Brien’s article “Stuck 30 Hours on Thruway: ‘He Just Feels Abandoned’ is crazy enough. But the quotes from folks trapped for more than a day on a westbound section of the Interstate near Exit 56 are even crazier:

“I haven’t eaten for a day and a half,” said Samuel Martin, a 49-year-old trucker from Silverton, Oregon…

“I almost feel like he’s my best friend at this point. Letting me in his car, pretty much saved my life,” said Shawn Daley, 39, adding that several other motorists declined to let him in before he asked Steven Ratcliff

“Somebody can reach his father like that with a snowmobile, but no one in the county could get people out to help these people,” Joanne Pinkoske said.

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