Posted on 01/04/2022 7:09:15 AM PST by C19fan
Drivers were stuck on an interstate near Washington, D.C., after a major snowstorm struck the East Coast.
Hundreds of drivers were stuck on Interstate 95 in Virginia for hours, with some claiming to have been there for over 19 hours after one of the state's largest snowfalls in years.
The jam was so bad that "some people were seen abandoning their vehicles in snow-covered travel lanes, walking down I-95 to parts unknown," according to WTOP traffic reporter Dave Dildine, describing the incident as a "worst-case scenario."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Apparently the plows couldn’t reach the snow on I95 because of the traffic jams, per a story on WTOP’s website.
I guess the idea of staging the plows on I95 ahead of the snowstorm escapes these people.
“”“Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence””
I worked around Northam decades ago. The opinion I formed then has only confirmed itself over time.
They don't have the equipment to deal with this. Why not?? It does happen every year.
LOL! Right. Over Christmas, I-80 was shut down for nearly 3 days from Reno to Colfax CA. Donner Pass measuring station had over sixteen feet of snow. And wind. Lots of wind a few days later.
Also, the power outages (of which there are many) caused VDOT’s traffic cameras to go down, so VDOT had no idea what was going on on I95.
There’s probably nothing more than a 15-minute UPS on them, if even that.
He’s a malicious incompetent?
If I-95 is messed up an alternate might be Route 1 going south. But I am guessing that is also in bad shape.
I imagine those blue ball liberals are hoping for a bit of globull warming about now…just imagine if it were too hot they could just turn on the AC and cruise on…warming is much more conducive to life than cooling…modern ‘civilization’ as such developed in an earth warm period…
Route 1 is usually a parking lot anytime I95 is.
LOL, I was stuck in Rochester back around March of 03’, 24”. X44 at the Burger King rest stop. They ran out of food, but the coffee was free. Add to that, same storm, when I was in Syracuse, I jack knifed and almost got crushed by 18 wheelers doing 55+ through the snow and ice. To say I was scared $h!tless is an under statement. I was driving my Jimmy 1500 pick up and 16’ trailer to the Henrietta Dome. The next day I got out, but turned around and went back home. There was no way to get in, they turned back all non emergency vehicles. The next day it was open again, but I wasn’t going back for only one day. LOL, I would have had to shovel out a parking place.
All you folks up north that gave us southerners grief over being stranded overnight due to a coating of ICE on the road:
Ha Ha!
Are people in that business known for either intelligence or compassion?
Exactly. Here in East TN, you always see plows and salt trucks 'hanging out' on interstate entrance ramps before the advent of a snow event. Easy peasy.
Drivers in Northern Virginia just don’t handle these conditions very well.
Back around 2004 we left FLA to return north and got hit with a snow storm in South Carolina. It turned into a mess, had to get off I 95 and into a motel. Most people on the road drove slow, but some northerners with their FWD SUVs went zooming by. We found several the next day off the roads in various positions in ditches. Got caught in snow one year in Augusta GA, their snow removal plan was called Sun.
The one I knew has the ethics of Boss Hogg.
Since the impact of this incompetent performance is mostly on wokester land of DC and NOVA the helpless paralysis of VA government is only partially due to the usual managerial headlessness of the interregnum when ,not only when a change of administration is under way but when a party change is also happening.
The emergency services bureaucracy and the National Guard are pretty much part of the permanent government. The failure is in the chief executive driving the train and presiding literally not by video teleconference with people a mile or two away due to the menace of Covid-19 and kicking the sloth like movement of the bureaucracy into action. Northham leaves office a failure in most basic of an executive. This fiasco and acts of historic vandalism comparable to ISIS and the Taliban will be how he is remembered.
Like the WH, waiting to move FPOTUS in a blizzard!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cZBz3NHpFQ
I grew up in Orchard Park.
The problem is they may not have any rock salt either.
The roads got packed down with snow that turned to ice.
Then you get a couple accidents and the traffic backed up for miles. IF you are already on the highway there is no where to go if you not near an exit.
Do they still you snow blowers on rt 33(I thing it was the Kensington expressway) from the airport to downtown? I remember them blowing the snow into dump trucks driving next to the snow blower. Almost as stupid as the “Skyway” section of route 5 along the lake down to Lackawanna.
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