"We had a situation but we had it very good compared to most people," Kessler said, recalling how the band got trapped in traffic after leaving their Columbus, N.Y., show. "Everyone had a sense of optimism, but by the next morning we just moved a very, very small amount and we were basically stuck on a road-I should say much better than other people."

At first, the guitarist assumed the van was stopped for customs at the Canadian border. "After we played a show Monday night in Columbus, we boarded the bus and were hopeful we'd cross the border at some point in the middle of the night," Kessler said. "I kept thinking they let us through the border. Typically when you're going into Canada, they ask you to descend from the bus and they check your papers and so forth. I kept feeling the bus stop intermittently and thought, 'Oh, they're letting us go through this time.'

"It wasn't until early next morning that I realized, 'No, we're very much stuck in snow.' I think I had a sense of optimism when our driver told me, 'Just a few miles ahead of us is Buffalo and they don't really have any snow yet.' At that point, they had no snow at all. It came a little later."