{"id":107942,"date":"2026-01-22T00:27:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/107942\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T00:27:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:27:20","slug":"thruway-rest-stop-operational-after-travelers-snowed-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/107942\/","title":{"rendered":"Thruway rest stop operational after travelers snowed in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Angola rest stop on the New York State Thruway is fully operational after travelers were stranded there overnight.<\/p>\n<p>The Thruway Authority said drivers had to pull into the service area due to heavy snowfall, strong winds and freezing temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>The rest stop was without restroom or restaurant access for a time early Tuesday morning due to a frozen water valve. Bottled water was available and water was restored later in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Chenelly, the national executive director for AMVETS, said on social media that he was among &#8220;about 40&#8221; people snowed in at the stop early Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">About 40 of us are stuck at\/in the Angola Travel Plaza on the Thruway. No bathrooms. Snow deep throughout the lot and access road. Too many trucks to be able to get out. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FuvLs1DdJd\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/FuvLs1DdJd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joe Chenelly \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@jchenelly) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jchenelly\/status\/2013568645461426446?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The authority said the majority of travelers were able to leave around 8 or 9 a.m.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Angola rest stop on the New York State Thruway is fully operational after travelers were stranded there&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[387,1434,113,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,308,380,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-107942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-app-public-safety","9":"tag-app-weather","10":"tag-buffalo","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-new-york-state","15":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","16":"tag-new-york-state-news","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-public-safety","19":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","20":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}