Hotels fill up fast with stranded travelers, employees
By Julie Wurth
Wednesday February 14, 2007
In a word, the weather outside was "frightful" – enough to make scores of travelers ditch area highways for the safety of a hotel room.
"We just decided it wasn't worth it," said Callie Wellendorf of Cary, who abandoned plans to drive home and booked a room at Urbana's Holiday Inn Express Tuesday night. "It's frightful out there." Hotels filled up with stranded travelers and employees who couldn't make it home – or feared they wouldn't make it back to work today.
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