Once the airports officially closed it was pretty much game over for even the savviest travelers, as there was no trick up your sleeve that could makeaplane take you to a closed airport, and pretty much everything in the Northeast, from JFK and Newark and Philly down to Hartford was closed.
That technique worked pretty well during the 1970s when people would hijack aplane, make demands and then the plane would land, there would be some negotiations and eventually the situation would be defused.
The UN confirmed that a white Antonov transport aircraft with false markings to make it look like a UN plane had been seen dropping supplies in an area where a rebel commander, David Yau Yau, has been operating.