{"id":72922,"date":"2025-12-29T18:31:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T18:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/72922\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T18:31:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T18:31:06","slug":"travel-advisory-issued-for-all-of-erie-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/72922\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel advisory issued for all of Erie County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Due to strong winds and whiteout conditions expected, a travel advisory has been issued for all of Erie County.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;High winds and blowing snow are expected to create near-whiteout conditions across the area as a multi-day lake-effect winter storm system crosses Western New York,&#8221; Erie County Mark Poloncarz said.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A Travel Advisory has been issued for all of Erie County beginning at 11:00 AM today, Monday December 29.<\/p>\n<p>Residents are advised to avoid travel if possible. If travel is unavoidable, be sure your vehicle is prepared for winter driving and has a winter survival kit inside. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fNDtS91tLg\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/fNDtS91tLg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mark Poloncarz (@markpoloncarz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markpoloncarz\/status\/2005659781382738106?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 29, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Residents are advised to avoid travel if possible. If travel is unavoidable, be sure your vehicle is prepared for winter driving and has a winter survival kit inside.<\/p>\n<p>The Skyway in the city of Buffalo has been <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/buffalo\/news\/2025\/12\/28\/buffalo-skyway-to-close-monday-morning-due-to-expected-strong-winds--snow\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">closed<\/a> since 6 a.m. Monday.\u00a0The closure will remain in effect until further notice, according to city officials.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Kathy Hochul&#8217;s office has also announced empty tractor trailer and tandem ban on the following state highways in Western New York:<\/p>\n<p>I-190<br \/>\nI-90 (Thruway Authority Section from Exit 46 to the PA Line both east and west bound)<br \/>\nI-290 (From I-190 to I-90)<br \/>\nI-990 (I-90 to State Route 263 Millersport Highway)<br \/>\nRte 400 (I-90 to State Route 16)<br \/>\nRte 219 (I-90 to State Route 39)<br \/>\nI-86 ( PA Line to I-390)<\/p>\n<p>Spectrum News 1 has some tips on what you can do to be as prepared as possible for the incoming weather:<\/p>\n<p>Get out your flashlights, keep candles or lighters, and blankets nearby.<br \/>\nMake sure you have your phones, tablets and portable charging devices charged up and have batteries on hand for flashlights.<br \/>\nBe sure to have a supply of drinking water and non-perishable foods.<br \/>\nMake sure you have a full tank of gas.<br \/>\nIf there is an outage, be sure to let your utility company know and stay away from downed wires.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Due to strong winds and whiteout conditions expected, a travel advisory has been issued for all of Erie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[290,38010,1611,136,138,137,139,294,1592,25636,38011],"class_list":{"0":"post-72922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-app-public-safety","9":"tag-app-weather","10":"tag-buffalo","11":"tag-erie","12":"tag-erie-headlines","13":"tag-erie-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-public-safety","16":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","17":"tag-vod","18":"tag-weather-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}