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2020-03-18

Returning to New Jersey after a nonessential stay at home order in the Tri-State Region

On March 18, 2020 at approximately 8:45 I drove the Pennsylvania Turnpike eastbound out of Ohio coming home from Michigan on the day of the New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania nonessential stay home orders due to COVID-19. I was returning from my grandson's christening in Michigan on the Canadian Border. I have never seen an empty turnpike on a weekday at 8:45a.m.