Hundreds of Cars Snowed in on Pennsylvania Highway

Returning from Washington D.C., where they took part Friday in the annual March for Life, they at least had food and water on board, said Tim McNeil, chancellor of the Archdiocese of Omaha.

Jensen says they cut the trip short, but it still didn’t turn out so well.

Students from Columbus Scotus, Humphrey St. Francis, and many other area Catholic schools are believed to be in one of the stranded busses at this hour.

A photo sent back home by one of those stranded showed them searching for branches along the road so they could be fashioned into a cross.

This time, Lugge said, they didn’t wait around; knowing that the snow was coming, they left right away. He said, “the pilgrims are in constant contact with the Department of Transportation and that they are safe and in a good mood”.

Father Ken and a group of students from Owensboro Catholic were driving back from the March for Life in Washington D.C. Friday afternoon when their charter bus got stuck in traffic in Pennsylvania. They’ve been stranded for about 21 hours.

The bus driver said that since they have a full tank of gas, they’ll be able to stay warm with the bus running for as long as a week if needed. Troy Uhlir of Norfolk, one of many chaperones on the bus that made it out of the blizzard safely, tells News Channel Nebraska that their bus was stopped several times as vehicles got stuck on the interstate.

“It’s white everywhere”, Cowgill said.

“From there, it was pretty much a domino effect”, he said.

According to Marilyn Synek, who is a UNK sophomore and vice president of Kearney’s chapter of Students For Life, the students were told an accident had happened on the road ahead.

Five buses from Dubuque drove the 18 hour ride to the east coast. People are frantic and in need of some comfort and food while they await emergency responders.