Drive In Massachussets/Spend A Year In Jail

FredHayek
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Mountain Legend

08 Feb 2013 13:49 #1 by FredHayek

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Massachussets is shutting down today, after 4PM, drivers face jail time for driving in the snowstorm Nemo. Sounds pretty extreme. I know Colorado will close state highways occasionally like 285 in South Park when it is icy with bad winds, but don't remember a statewide driving ban.

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Blazer Bob
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08 Feb 2013 14:18 #2 by Blazer Bob

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Our state does not fit on the head of a pin. Ma is about 1/10th our sq miles

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MsMAM
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09 Feb 2013 20:34 #3 by MsMAM

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Bad storm

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ScienceChic
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09 Feb 2013 21:30 #4 by ScienceChic

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This was NY earlier today, I don't think they need any laws to tell people to stay off the road!

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Another view of the hundreds of stuck vehicles in Suffolk County, Long Island, NY. This is RT 25 through the area near a walmart. Many have been stranded since yesterday evening! Some were rescued by snowmobile. Near 30 inches of snow fell with drifts 5 feet or higher!
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PrintSmith
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10 Feb 2013 11:41 #5 by PrintSmith

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Man would I have been in trouble. When the Thanksgiving Blizzard of '83 struck Colorado, I was living in Evergreen and my girlfriend was living off I-225 and Mississippi (gas was a lot less expensive back then). I shoveled out my Datsun 710 (rear wheel drive), put chains on and went down to be with the girlfriend on Thanksgiving even though 74, 285 and a few of the other roads along my path were officially closed as a result of the storm. Never once thought about being fined or jailed for driving down a closed road. Love does indeed make fools out of us all.

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