Buffalo airport closed until Monday AM...Christmas in Chicago for the Bills?

[Process]

43 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:

 

I think it's safe to say all of our UFAs will not be resigning 

[YoloinOhio]

 

[AlCowlingsTaxiService]

Amazed at all the wringing of hands here … mains are quit passable with caution. Same for the interstates. They got home with zero issues. 

[boyst]

3 hours ago, Bob Jones said:

Wow. So I’m guessing they were allowed to use the Thruway to get from Rochester to the Buffalo airport, and then they were all allowed to individually drive home from the airport to their homes in OP (or the south towns), while everybody else is locked down at home, and there is a standing traffic ban, with threats of arrest for being out on the roads!? Just Wow! Rules are for suckers, not NFL organizations, I guess. 🙄

What are you 12?  This world is us. And this world is them. In most cases "us" are only here because "them" allow it.

 

Either way. Home by sunset

On 12/24/2022 at 4:24 PM, Wacka said:

7-8 foot drifts in Cheektowaga

 

20 hours ago, HardyBoy said:

Yeah, they're not driving into buffalo until then either. What insurance company that insures an nfl team and all those salaries is going to sign off on that one exactly?

@boater

 

Hey y'all. nothing like reciepts. Boaters rolling his eyes, y'all doubting how much the players matter more than us... Here ya go. We are plebs. 😂

[PromoTheRobot]

3 hours ago, Bob Jones said:

Wow. So I’m guessing they were allowed to use the Thruway to get from Rochester to the Buffalo airport, and then they were all allowed to individually drive home from the airport to their homes in OP (or the south towns), while everybody else is locked down at home, and there is a standing traffic ban, with threats of arrest for being out on the roads!? Just Wow! Rules are for suckers, not NFL organizations, I guess. 🙄

 

Special case. Besides they're going home, not for a beer run.

[boater]

35 minutes ago, boyst said:

@boater

 

Hey y'all. nothing like reciepts. Boaters rolling his eyes, y'all doubting how much the players matter more than us... Here ya go. We are plebs. 😂

I think you have me mixed up with someone else.

[Motorin']

3 hours ago, Process said:

I think it's safe to say all of our UFAs will not be resigning 

 

Maybe they can build the players a covered parking garage for the new stadium? Geez 

 

[zow2]

I saw on Twitter where the buses came from Rochester down route 33 through Batavia, Corfu, etc..  I have no problem with the team getting the players back to their homes, which would require some driving on local roads. They should be with their families. People that want to b*tch about it just live to complain and find things to be upset about all the time.

[BlazinBill]

4 hours ago, Bob Jones said:

Wow. So I’m guessing they were allowed to use the Thruway to get from Rochester to the Buffalo airport, and then they were all allowed to individually drive home from the airport to their homes in OP (or the south towns), while everybody else is locked down at home, and there is a standing traffic ban, with threats of arrest for being out on the roads!? Just Wow! Rules are for suckers, not NFL organizations, I guess. 🙄

Well someone is a little upset with their Christmas presents - geez all you had to do is take one picture is the bunny onesie and then change

Chillax bro- if this is the first time in life you found out circumstances are different for different people or the fact there is more then 1 effin way to get to Buffalo from Rochester then perhaps you need some life lessons.

Happy Holidays!

 

[Since1981]

Usually, side roads and state roads are open even if/when interstate is “closed”. They can’t physically “close” all roads. 

[Boatdrinks]

4 hours ago, Process said:

I think it's safe to say all of our UFAs will not be resigning 

Surprised the team didn’t  have a crew out there clearing these off ahead of time. 

[Warcodered]

 

[Starr Almighty]

I understand the players get paid big bucks. But in the grand scheme of things, they play to entertain us. I can't believe people are actually mad that after freezing their sacks off. They are being allowed to be with their loved ones on Christmas. I'd want that for any person, let alone the team.

[HardyBoy]

12 hours ago, boyst said:

What are you 12?  This world is us. And this world is them. In most cases "us" are only here because "them" allow it.

 

Either way. Home by sunset

 

@boater

 

Hey y'all. nothing like reciepts. Boaters rolling his eyes, y'all doubting how much the players matter more than us... Here ya go. We are plebs. 😂

 

Yeah, I was hard wrong on them having no chance of making it back yesterday. 

[Beck Water]

14 hours ago, zow2 said:

I saw on Twitter where the buses came from Rochester down route 33 through Batavia, Corfu, etc..  I have no problem with the team getting the players back to their homes, which would require some driving on local roads. They should be with their families. People that want to b*tch about it just live to complain and find things to be upset about all the time.

 

This deserves a Bump.  Everyone assuming the Bills violated the closure of the NYS Thruway.  No, they came down main roads, that were open. 

 

Yes, they did violate driving bans in Erie County, but those normally don't apply to "Essential Workers".  I have no problem with considering getting the Bills home as "essential travel" especially if they had guidance on what roads were open and what to avoid.

14 hours ago, Since1981 said:

Usually, side roads and state roads are open even if/when interstate is “closed”. They can’t physically “close” all roads. 

 

I know this goes without saying for most, but the thing that physically closes the roads is often the physical conditions - the driving ban exists because the roads are in such bad shape that cars are getting stuck just from folks trying to get home from work, then that makes plowing more difficult.

 

Witness this pic looking N on Transit from Sheridan road:

The plow obviously needed to be creative already, and one more guy who gets stuck in the only open lane, and EMS is screwed on response.

 

 

Anyway, point is, being a dick about getting the Bills home on Sunday afternoon after the storm isn't going to do a Thing to help people who couldn't get an ambulance or a rescue from their stuck car during the thick of it on Fri or Sat.  It's tragic, but me ripping my clothes and smearing ashes on my face Sunday night doesn't get you heat or a ride home on Saturday morning.

Edited December 26, 2022 by Beck Water

[Beck Water]

14 hours ago, Boatdrinks said:

Surprised the team didn’t  have a crew out there clearing these off ahead of time. 

 

Any crew the team might have wanted to hired could well have been unable to get out or unable to travel - the team tried to hire snowplows to clear the player's driveways for travel to Detroit and the plows couldn't get out.

 

But according to this video from Coach Dorsey's wife, there were apparently teams of volunteers who turned out to help shovel

 

 

[muppy]

I had to laugh at the irony.

 

While the team traveled on Route 33 to Return to Buffalo It was the very same highway my own parents got stuck and stranded on during the Blizzard of 77 In an attempt to attend my aunts funeral in Buffalo.  They could not get back home  for FIVE days.

 

But the same road  was clear enough for travel and escort home for our Bills. My parents are undoubtedly smirking up in heaven as I type this 🙂 

 

I read 25 deaths so far. This chit is really no joke Im not making light of it.  But of course Im glad the Bills are home. I hope everybody gets at home ASAP.

 

amen.-m

 

 

 

 

[london_bills]

Stay safe people of Buffalo. Seen the news from the UK of the weather .💙

[Playoffs?]

Sorry if already posted… but I’m watching GMFB right now, and they’re showing clips of the Bills players digging their cars out of the snow at the airport. 
 

Im actually blown away that they didn’t have the team park under cover (somewhere, anywhere), having a good idea that the weather was going to be insane.  Pick ‘em up in a covered lot or garage and bus right to plane.

Perhaps overreaction, and bigger issues in the world though…

[Motorin']

15 minutes ago, Playoffs? said:

Sorry if already posted… but I’m watching GMFB right now, and they’re showing clips of the Bills players digging their cars out of the snow at the airport. 
 

Im actually blown away that they didn’t have the team park under cover (somewhere, anywhere), having a good idea that the weather was going to be insane.  Pick ‘em up in a covered lot or garage and bus right to plane.

Perhaps overreaction, and bigger issues in the world though…

 

Build a freaking parking garage. Even if the real estate is tight you build vertically. Hello, McFly!?!