VDOT reporting I-81 North at 120 is blocked and backed up 15 miles, due to a disabled vehicle.
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Brrrr !!
I-77 shutdown nightmare
Instead of a highway, Interstate-77 looked more like a parking lot earlier today in Wythe County as cars sat in bumper to bumper traffic.
Meanwhile, homeowners were busy dealing with headaches of their own like shoveling snow out of driveways to plowing it out of roadways.
The heavy snowfall also created dangerous driving conditions…forcing hundreds of big rigs to pull off the road and into a truck stop in Fort Chiswell.
“We came up the mountain last night and it was horrible,“ said Trucker Jeff Waickman. “It was treacherous.“
Last night, Dianna Floyd and her husband never made it to their destination.
They, along with more than 300 people, spent the night at George Wythe High School. “Hard on the floor with one blanket.“
The county opened the shelter after many people who had just planned to pass through the area, got stuck in the area. “Better than the alternative, which would have been stranded on the highway all night long,“ said Floyd.
Erika White’s car was stranded on the highway all night long, after she hit a patch of ice and slid off the road. “The front of the car was pretty much covered in snow, so we’re going to try to back it up and get it out of here,“ said White.
In Radford, snow in one area measured almost 11 inches, while viewers in the other parts of the New River Valley reported more than 20 inches.