Submitted by Lumpy-Upstairs3755 t3_zxm4n3 in Pennsylvania
How are you all fairing from the storm? I’m trying to go visit family in Indiana and I have to get from Buffalo to there. Is the 90 open? How is it traveling if it is open?
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Brianeric t1_j2133mz wrote
Yep, just drove Detroit to Philly today. No problem at all, nice drive
Lumpy-Upstairs3755 OP t1_j213oc6 wrote
Thanks!
Lumpy-Upstairs3755 OP t1_j213oxs wrote
Thank you!
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PPQue6 t1_j214shz wrote
Yep no problem, have a safe trip!
Lumpy-Upstairs3755 OP t1_j215v01 wrote
STLLC2019 t1_j2160nq wrote
People from outside of PA, being generally weirdos, have an annoying tendency to refer to interstates as "The (highway number)" rather than I-(highway number) like normal folk.
festerwl t1_j2175yx wrote
The 46 miles through PA are good. It was 40° today so we were all wearing shorts.
snuffy_tentpeg t1_j21dcr5 wrote
Shorts and Fetterperson hoodies....
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WhoUsesTheirRealName t1_j21ht4g wrote
You know, like the Schuylkill, the Blue Route, the Turnpike.
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drewbaccaAWD t1_j22idjo wrote
80/90 through Ohio can be rough if you run into an active storm, but I doubt any worse than what you'd see at the start in Buffalo. There isn't enough of 90 through PA to even judge it, blink and you'll miss it.
drewbaccaAWD t1_j22j0pr wrote
It's more of an East Coast/ West Coast thing in my experience... In the east you drive on I-95 and out west you drive on "the 5" or "the 15" or whatever. Same applies to Interstates 90/80/70 etc.
I personally prefer using "the" which most of us do when referring to "the Turnpike" although we'd then say I-80, I-79, or whatever. So yeah, I do say I-whatever out here.
Just one of those weird regional things.
randycanyon t1_j22jc8u wrote
Not even west Coast.
Southern California.
drewbaccaAWD t1_j22lw6a wrote
It was "the five" and "the 90" in Seattle. Lived there for seven years (two years in San Diego).
*edit to add* Wife was from Phoenix.. "the ten" and "the 17" as well as "the eight."
randycanyon t1_j22ox0o wrote
Arrrrgh! Creeping LA-ification!
drewbaccaAWD t1_j22pob8 wrote
lol.. quite possible. Curse them!
SWPenn t1_j23bwen wrote
I read the story of how that came to be in Southern California. The original freeways were built before interstate numbering. So they were simply named "the Hollywood Freeway" and "the Santa Monica Freeway," etc. When they were designated with numbers, people just inserted the number after the "the." So now it's "the 5" and "the 405," and so on.
Important-Courage890 t1_j23s4q9 wrote
Wow, out of the frying pan and into the fire...
nat3215 t1_j25drgz wrote
I-90 in Ohio is in great shape. We are thawing out over here for sure
PPQue6 t1_j212706 wrote
It's fine, can't speak to the NY Turnpike, but at least in PA it's fine today.