# Taking car from Texas to Northern NY - what to check

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**Tags:** venza, toyota\
**Created:** [December 13, 2016, 2:18am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/taking-car-from-texas-to-northern-ny-what-to-check/97134 "2016-12-13T02:18:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![pyrolord314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6a8cbe/32.png) [@pyrolord314](https://community.cartalk.com/u/pyrolord314)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 7:20pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/taking-car-from-texas-to-northern-ny-what-to-check/97134/21 "2016-12-13T19:20:04Z")

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> [@meanjoe75fan](#):
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> the other has you go to roughly Harrisburg, PA, and take I-81 north, and keeps you a considerable distance from the lakes the whole way.

That area (around Harrisburg) still gets hit by lake effect snow, not as bad as I-90, but it still gets hairy up there especially as you get farther north out of PA into NY

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**Author:** ![meanjoe75fan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/meanjoe75fan/32/552_2.png) [@meanjoe75fan](https://community.cartalk.com/u/meanjoe75fan)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 7:20pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/taking-car-from-texas-to-northern-ny-what-to-check/97134/22 "2016-12-13T19:20:34Z")

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…you got a better route? I-90 keeps you in the “stuff” from Cleveland all the rest of the way: snow, blowing snow, and (in my own personal experience) near hurricane-force winds behind a strong winter storm.

There is a far more limited length of exposure going I-81: LE snow really isn’t an issue here, at least up to the NY state line. TBH, I don’t think there exists a means of getting to Watertown in winter that doesn’t involve exposure to snow…I just mitigated it somewhat with a reroute.

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**Author:** ![MikeInNH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a587f6/32.png) [@MikeInNH](https://community.cartalk.com/u/MikeInNH)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 7:58pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/taking-car-from-texas-to-northern-ny-what-to-check/97134/23 "2016-12-13T19:58:49Z")

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I-90 being longer the the I-81 stretch between Syracuse and Watertown is the only reason it may get more lake effect snow. But most storms go from west to east so I-81 sees many more lake effect storms per mile. I-90 also is taken care of by the throughway authority. They do a much better job of keeping the highway clean.

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