My hate and loathing for PA

Recently, as some of you are aware, I took with my husband BJ, a 28 hr car ride to Mass where he is going to go to work. Well, on the trek we ended up in PA. Normally I wouldn't have had a problem with the shear fact we were in a different state, but since my first trip to PA was not a happy one, I really don't think I would ever much like to return. As some of you may know, recently there have been some incredibly bad storms on the east coast, Mass and Penn included. These storms didn't cause much trouble because they were mainly just on the trees and on the side of the roads, most of the roads are cleared. However, in Penn. this is not the case. For some reason, which I am still clueless to, Penn felt the need to not clear all their roads. And we aren't speaking of some small town roads or city roads, we are speaking of highways. Yes, they seemed to be in the rural areas of Penn., but you are telling me a state that deals with snow and ice on a regular basis doesn't have a decent amount of plow trucks? Come on now, even Texas, where it never snows or ices has sand trucks! There were broken down cars all over the road. Because they were out of gas, semis that had pulled over to sleep, accidents, right there in the middle of the lanes! It was horrible. I have never experienced such a thing! Highway 78 had shut down due to an oil spill. People had been suck there for so many hours they were actually bringing them provisions. BJ and I started out on this highway on Wed. night late. We were almost out of gas, it was about 2 in the morning and we were ready to get gas and stop. Then about 2 miles on it we hit a wall of stand still traffic. BJ tried to move up on the shoulder to see if we could get around it. When we realized that wasn't going to work, we crossed the medium (luckily we were in my car with the 4-wheel drive!) and we headed back about 15 miles to the nearest exit! (Yes, that's right, the first exit was 15 mile back!) Once there we headed to bed to get a good night sleep to arise early for the next day. We left about 10 am. We got back on 78 and much to our surprise it was the same thing. Luckily, about 30 min after sitting in the stand still, BJ's mom, Charmayne called. She found us an alternate route, we should take 80. Upon crossing the medium, yet again, we made our way towards 80. It was in a similar state. After sitting there for somewhere along the lines of about 2-3 hours, I asked a truck driver what was going on. He said since 8 am that morning on 80, two semi-trucks were stuck and they haven't moved them. That was 12 miles up! He said 78 had been closed down due to the oil spill. Finally, after sitting for about 4 hours, we finally started moving about 5-10 mph. Problem then became actually getting off the highway. By this time it was 2 pm and we hadn't eaten since 5 pm the day before! We then ran into the problem that we couldn't exit because there were semis stuck on all of the exits. We were driving on about a foot of packed snow and ice, the road ways hadn't been cleared at all. Finally, at about 7 pm, we made it off an exit and to a Wendy's. First food we had eaten in 26 hours!! It took us about another 3 hours to finally get out of Penn. So total we had been in Penn. for about 12 hours and only gone about 70 miles max! As you can understand, I hate and loath Penn, and don't think I ever want to go back!! (Oh we did make it by the way! Thank God! And I am thanking God right now that I am flying back!)