<p>Most of kids from her school are staying put until Sat. My daughter took my SUV up to school this past weekend. I told her to get the car off the road to her boyfriend’s off campus house on Thu night, so she would have someone to help her dig it out on Sat. There is a huge stretch of no man’s land on the Pocono mountain. If your kids have a car up at school, make sure to get it off the road so it wouldn’t be plowed in.</p>
<p>On Saturday, it would depend on 1) the type of snow and 2) the amount of wind. A lot of times, the day/days after a storm are just as bad if the plowed snow just blows and drifts back on to the road. They usually do a good job keeping up on the interstates abd major highways, but the secondary roads can have that problem. I just hope everyone gets home safely for the holidays!!</p>
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<p>Oldfort, I think she really should wait until Saturday. It’s supposed to snow like crazy on Friday in upstate New York and northeastern Pennsylvania but clear up on Saturday. On Friday, I doubt she would even make it down route 79 to Whitney Point. Ithaca is a long way from an Interstate.</p>
<p>My daughter, also at Cornell, has an exam in that very last exam period, just as your daughter does. She is supposed to travel home on a charter bus that leaves at 5:15 pm tomorrow. Right now, the bus people say the bus is still leaving on time, but I actually hope it will be postponed until the next day for easier driving. (It won’t be cancelled altogether because the buses and drivers have already arrived in Ithaca and have to get back to Maryland somehow, so if their company says “no go” on Friday, they will simply wait until Saturday.)</p>
<p>Buses are very heavy and therefore can travel in road conditions that would not be safe for cars. Without telling your daughter, you might want to check the web site for my daughter’s charter bus: [Cornell-Bethesda</a> Bus](<a href=“http://www.cbbus.com%5DCornell-Bethesda”>http://www.cbbus.com) If the bus people decide that they can’t travel in tomorrow’s weather, that would be a powerful argument for urging your daughter to wait as well. (If they don’t delay the bus, you don’t have to tell her anything – unless of course she reads your posts on this site.)</p>
<p>Hi. We’re up in Poughkeepsie now. From what we can gather from the reports on the local TV, the news, and speaking with the waitress at a restaurant up here (LOL), the snow is expected to hit hard in the afternoon and evening. As of now, we’re hoping to get out of here and head home before the worst of it hits. The final is tomorrow at 9:00am.</p>
<p>Has anyone tried dialing 511 (in New York)?</p>
<p>As I said a while back, they’re very accurate and helpful about road conditions all over the state.</p>
<p>We dialed 511 on a recent trip. Most of the time they are very accurate…but they don’t update quickly so if there is an accident,for example, you may be in backed up traffic and have no idea why (that’s what happened to us).</p>
<p>Freezing rain began at 6:30 this morning here in western Ohio. All area schools are closed. My son has one of the last scheduled finals at his school, too, and said most students have left campus. He may have to stay at a B&B near his northwestern PA campus tonight.</p>
<p>The storm was in full swing before I even got up this morning, and has intensified with each passing hour. I’m shovelling in front of one door about every half hour so that my dogs can get out into the yard. Very high winds and it’s colder than they predicted. Schools here are open, as usual, except for private schools which always wimp out in snowy weather. :)</p>
<p>I think every school in this state (CT) is closed today. The snow has not yet started here in the Western part of the state (which is where it is supposed to begin). If this storm materializes as forecast, it’s going to be snowing 2 inches per hour at least, once it starts. I hope my husband has the sense to leave work when he sees the FIRST snowflake. He works in another region of this state that typically gets much less snow…and much later. If he doesn’t leave early, he’ll be staying at a hotel somewhere.</p>
<p>Every school in our county EXCEPT ours closed today in anticipation of this storm (in the past our district buses have been forced off the roads by sheriff’s deputies when the county is in a state of emergency, you think the superintendent would learn). It is D’s first day driving to school on her own (she finally passed her driver’s test yesterday) - I think I will have to go up and follow her home…</p>
<p>Up here it is that fine snow that will make visibility absolutely impossible once the winds come, this is going to be fun…</p>
<p>Well…just checked weather.com and they are now forecasting the snow to begin later, and the heavier snow to begin at about 3:30 or 4. We could have had an early dismissal from school. I’m not complaining…but this is what happens when you rely on the weather forecast. Of course…better safe than sorry.</p>
<p>Well, I checked Alaska’s schedule, and the 6 pm flight from Boston to Seattle is rescheduled for 2 am Saturday. Looks like they are expecting BOS to close for snow removal? JetBlue does not have any updates yet, but could experience a similar delay/cancellation. I’m keeping fingers crossed for everyone’s kids.</p>
<p>A word of warning to anyone traveling to Seattle on Sunday: keep an eye on the weather; it could get really bad with snow/freezing rain and winds up to 70 mph according to the local weather people.</p>
<p>We live in central NJ. The snow has been coming down since 10am. The ground is covered now.</p>
<p>Kids at my daughter’s school are all staying over. I think there’ll be a lot of partying tonight because it’s the last day of finals, normally they would have left late this afternoon. I am looking at the school live webcam, it’s very white right now.</p>
<p>Central NY state here. We just tried to leave early and beat the storm, we were heading to Florida. With school closed, we decided to leave early. I am now back home, we turned around and came back. I can’t remember EVER doing that. We are going to try again tomorrow. Meanwhile, the tree is on the curb, the packages are wrapped, the car is packed, the frig is empty. I guess I may catch up on the sleep I lost last night, getting all the above done!</p>
<p>It started snowing her at 1:00…very fine but heavy snow. I think that is the worst to drive on. DH is on his way home now.</p>
<p>^^This shows how large this weather system is. It is still snowing heavily here in Toronto, and I’m still shovelling. The winds here are very bad. I’m not stepping outside except to shovel in front of the door and I wouldn’t even do that if I didn’t have four dogs who think it’s fun to go in and out every 10 minutes! Am doing some Christmas baking and the house smells wonderful. A very good day to stay inside.</p>
<p>Hoping to catch a sliver of a break in different storm systems. My college child leaves upstate NY for Seattle on Saturday. Right now it looks like one system should be passed NY by Saturday and the next one due to hit the NW won’t arrive until Sunday. Fingers crossed. Predicting NW weather is anything but accurate - don’t know about the Northeast.</p>
<p>Picked up S2 after his final this morning and headed back to LI. Left Poughkeepsie, NY area around 10am–no snow at that point. It started snowing about an hour later. The worst part was the LIE. It was so slippery. Traffic was moving but at about 35 miles/hr. We past quite a few fender benders. One was a 5 car “domino effect” which was on the LIE heading west but it didn’t look like there was any major damage. We actually had a little bumper to bumper contact with the car ahead of us----our car just slid and wouldn’t stop. No damage to our car or the other and we both kept driving. We did see one small yellow school bus on its side but luckily, we didn’t see any kids on the bus. Hopefully the driver is OK. It took us about 4 1/2 hours (usually takes about 3 to 3 1/2 hrs.)</p>
<p>If you have kids driving, try to convince them to wait until tomorrow to come home. The roads are extremely slippery.</p>
<p>Oh Man! S1 just called from work (he was covering for my H when we went to pick up S2). S1 called to say that a car swerved or slid and smashed into 2 parked cars–one being S1’s car. Police are there now getting all of the information. </p>
<p>Stay off the roads.</p>
<p>My daughter and friends did not leave today, but will leave tomorrow once the roads are cleared. Two friends decided to leave after 1:00 PM, but the last time I spoke to her, the girls had only gone 28 miles in over 2 hours. After checking out the school’s webcam as well as the NY State Thruway cameras, I am very glad my child is not on the road!</p>