* Kentucky - Wrecks keep traffic snarled on icy Kentucky interstates
-- Temperatures in Kentucky plunged below zero early Friday, and ongoing wrecks had highway crews struggling to keep traffic flowing on interstates that turned into parking lots and agonizingly long waits for motorists a day earlier... Travelers make the journey back to their vehicles Thursday after walking from Interstate 24 to a rest stop at Exit 16 in Paducah, Ky. Hundreds of motorists were stranded for agonizingly long waits Thursday as a late winter storm walloped Kentucky with up to 2 feet of snow, forcing National Guard soldiers and other emergency workers to make safety checks on snow-clogged interstates as road crews struggled to clear roads and wrecks...
(Photo Thousands stranded on snowy roads after crashes. Traffic moves south on Interstate 75 past a hill covered with ice today in Covington) Paducah,KY,USA -The Associated Press/Transport Toppics, by BRUCE SCHREINER -6 March 2015
* Ohio - Trucker, 6 in family hurt in crash on Turnpike near Swanton. Turnpike wreck causes 5-mile backup
-- Seven people were injured when a tractor-trailer crashed into a minivan stopped on the Ohio Turnpike’s eastbound shoulder near Swanton early Friday afternoon, causing a five-mile backup, authorities said... The truck driver, who was conscious and alert after the crash but had to be extricated from his vehicle’s wreckage, was taken to Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center... As of Friday evening, only the truck driver, Alfred Cruz, 55, of Portage, Ind., had been identified. The people in the minivan were members of an extended family from Minnesota, according to a highway patrol statement, and all were taken to the hospital even though only six were believed injured, two seriously...
(Photo: Poor visibility likely played role in Ohio Turnpike pileup ... Crews clean the remains of a multivehicle accident in the eastbound lane of the Ohio Turnpike near the County Road 268 overpass near Clyde on Thursday) -
Swanton,OH,USA -The Toledo Blade -7 March 2015
* New York - Cuomo rescue trucks 'costly exercise in futility' - Emergency trucks do best under sunny skies
-- Gov. Andrew Cuomo's fortified Chevrolet Suburban was no match for the swollen rivers overwhelming the Southern Tier... It was late in the summer of 2011, and two successive tropical storms, Irene and Lee, ripped through New York, bringing torrential rains that caused massive flooding, widespread evacuations and hundreds of millions of dollars in damages... Cuomo viewed some of the hardest-hit areas from a State Police helicopter. But the aerial tour limited his ability to get first-hand accounts from local officials and to interact with grief-stricken residents. So he switched to his black Suburban...
(Photo AP/The Buffalo News, by Sharon Cantillon - Gov. Andrew Cuomo's motorcade drives on the Thruway past abandoned vehicles near Cheektowaga, N.Y., Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014) --
Albany,NY,USA -Times Union, by Brendan J. Lyons -March 8, 2015
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