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How to Get to a Stranded Story? By Snowmobile

Dec 3, 11:45AM by Miles Doran Topics Notebook

Vehicles are stranded on the New York State Thruway during a winter storm in Buffalo, N.Y., Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010.

/ AP Photo

In hindsight, making the flight from JFK to Buffalo with three hour's notice was the easy part. Getting from Buffalo to, well, anywhere else, was the hard part.

I was sent to Buffalo with CBS News correspondent Elaine Quijano to cover the lake-effect snowstorm that, combined with a jack-knifed semi, caused a major backup on Interstate 90, stranding more than 100 motorists in their vehicles for, in some cases, more than a day.

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