WEATHER TROUBLES * USA / Oklahoma - Storm strands 27 bus passengers in Tulsa
Tulsa,OK,USA -kjrh/2 News -9 Feb 2011: -- Aerial Shiraef and Marcella Boone were traveling through Tulsa on different buses late Tuesday as the latest winter storm rolled into Green Country... Wednesday night both ladies found themselves staying at a Red Cross Shelter for a second night, as they wait for Greyhound to resume service at its Tulsa station... This is the second time in two weeks the weather has forced the closure of that bus station... It's also the second time the Red Cross has stepped in to help passengers and other motorists that found themselves stranded by winter weather... Aerial Shiraef tells, "The shelter is very nice. The Red Cross is very nice. They expected us in late Tuesday night, very late. They had people here waiting for us. Thank God we had some place warm to sleep" ... While passengers are grateful to have a safe place to stay, they can't wait to get back on the road...
* Missouri - Southbound bus passengers stranded
(Video from YouTube, by france24english -14 Dec 2010: SNOW STORM - USA: Deadly Midwest snowstorm treks east. A slow-moving storm that brought bone-chilling cold and dropped heavy snow that caused dozens of accidents, stranded more than 100 motorists and collapsed the roof of an NFL stadium made its way out of the Midwest)
Kansas City,MO,USA -Associated Press/The Chron, by Heather Hollingsworth -Feb. 4, 2011: -- Several hundred Greyhound bus passengers were stranded Friday in terminals from Texas to Missouri as a winter storm made roads hazardous and kept buses at bay... Greyhound spokeswoman, Bonnie Bastian, said that travel has been disrupted through Texas, Oklahoma and parts of Arkansas and Tennessee... The region, like much of the country, has been pummeled by winter weather this week. As many as 5 inches of snow fell in the Dallas area Friday, and Oklahoma, already trying to recover from record snowfall, had to contend with more snowfall Friday. The latest snow comes on the back end of a more than 2,000-mile system that spread frozen misery from Colorado to Maine, burying cities and towns in between with snow and ice...
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