The next concern, though, was when Newark's airport would open so the team's plane could head back to Toronto, where a game is scheduled for Tuesday. Other vehicles, he said, slid into the ditch or didn't have enough fuel to keep the heat on through the night. 'You're on a great big warm bus that's absolutely full with 200 gallons of gas,' he said. Brutaallll!!'ĭave Poulin, team vice president of hockey operations, said the bus got stuck when state police closed the highway about two miles from the Leafs' destination. They arrived five hours later, at 3 a.m.Ĭenter Tyler Bozak told his Twitter followers in one middle-of-the-night dispatch: 'Roads closed in new jersey stuck on the bussss. She's looking on the bright side: The delay has made for a longer visit a chance to watch movies, read books and throw snowballs and watch as a few brave drivers slide haplessly in the street.īut she knows that when she gets home, there's going to be a mountain of work waiting for her - and she'll probably be stuck in the office next weekend getting caught up.Īfter beating the New Jersey Devils 4-1 in Newark, N.J., the Toronto Maple Leafs boarded their bus for the 20-minute ride to their hotel.

Johnson, who's staying with the friend in Brooklyn Heights she was visiting for the holiday weekend, doesn't think she can get home until Thursday. You know it's coming, but who knows when?'

She fears the combination will bring on a seizure: 'It's kind of like a freight train. Johnson, a 28-year-old disability analyst who was supposed to get back home Sunday, says she's been up late worrying about her shifting travel plans and how the medication she needs is back in Virginia - so she's gulping Sumatra blend to stay awake during the day. Some medicine she can get from a drug store in a pinch - but one of them she needs to get from Canada because it's not approved in the U.S. Meghan Johnson, of Roanoke, Va., is stuck in New York City with her epilepsy medication running low and her stress level running high. But nothing has gone as planned, it seems. Others are stuck a little more happily with old friends. Some are stranded in airports with food supplies, not just flights, running low.

The winter storm that has been slogging up the East Coast for three days is leaving some travelers in desperate straits.

Stranded by Jessica Frances