Cars, trucks and buses that got stuck Friday night still hadn’t moved on Saturday, including buses carrying the Duquesne men’s basketball team and the gymnastics squad from Temple University.
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Ferry says his players have been eating leftover pizza from last night but he’s hoping traffic gets moving soon.
Everyone is safe. The bus is warm.
Duquesne University’s Men’s Basketball team were among those stuck on the road. Some of those pockets stretch two or three miles.
The governor’s office said the problems in Somerset County began after westbound tractor-trailers were unable to climb a hill.
The National Guard is assisting motorists on the Pennsylvania Turnpike who have been stranded in some cases for more than 16 hours because of heavy snow.
First responders were performing driver checks from ATVs to ensure the safety of those stranded.
The team sped out of Fairfax, Virginia, on Friday afternoon, escaping the storm’s bullseye only to become stranded in Western Pennsylvania.
“We always bring movies for our bus trip, and we have gone through all of them and we’ll probably start watching them again”, she said.
“When we left Philadelphia there was no snow at all, and we have been checking the weather patterns”, Salim-Beasley said.
Elsewhere in the United States, hundreds of drivers were stuck on I-75 overnight after a massive winter storm dumped more than a foot of snow in south central Kentucky, clogging cars and causing multiple crashes that created a 30-mile stretch of shivering passengers.
Saturday was supposed to be on an off day for the team, with their practice regimen resuming on Sunday before the next game on Tuesday.
“I just see cars”, Jackson said, who was with about 50 students going from Washington back home to Kansas City, Missouri.
Ferry said the team had tracked the storm and was prepared but is becoming a little concerned with the “rations of leftover pizza and water” starting to “run out a little bit”. “Right now we’re anxious about the kids”.
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Each team member stretched out as best she could on the seats to get some sleep.
