Posted on 01/21/2016 7:06:40 PM PST by Hojczyk
WASHINGTON (WJZ)—The D.C. Metro area got a nasty taste of what’s to come this weekend.
Chaos on the roads with just an inch of snow last night.
If Wednesday night is any indication of what we’ll see this weekend, then you need to start planning ahead and avoid being outside at all costs.
On Wednesday traffic at a standstill for miles.
Collisions and spin outs, all from an inch of snow and black ice that coated the DC area.
It’s an ugly preview of what’s to come this weekend when we’re expected to be pounded with two feet of snow.
Many of the roads were not pre-treated which attributed to the crippling conditions.
“What we experienced last evening from this snow event was nowhere near what the forecast had been for the weather in Maryland,†said Pete Rahn, Secretary of Transportation.
After sitting for more than 5 hours some chose to ditch their cars and walk home instead.
“I hope they would have anticipated this better and treated the roads,†said one driver.
It’s a nightmare people are hoping to not re-live, as the area prepares for one of the worst blizzards in recent history.
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This weather is crazy. Supposed to break 70 degrees here tomorrow in central California. We haven’t had much of a winter.
Salt is bad for you. Causes high blood pressure.
I was in D.C. during the Snowlocalypse
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The one in the mid 60s?
That one closed down Bolling A.F.B., Naval Air Station, Marine Barracks, Ft. Meyer and Andrews A.F.B. Among others.
“Solely due to idiots who don’t know how to SLOW DOWN!!!!”
Occasionally, I get super (lucky) and have to drive a hundred miles or two during a huge bluzzard. It is always slow and stressful. But I always get to laugh a bit each trip as there are always a few a$$clowns that blow by me in some stupid ass SUV at 70mph, and always always, I get to pass them 10 miles later while they are in the ditch.
That was before my time, I meant the one back in 2010. The one in 1966 sounds like a real nasty one.
I’m in the middle of it, in Northern VA. It’s supposed to start around dawn.
I was here for that one. Two storms back to back. My power went out for the first one.
I wouldn’t be out driving on ice. That’s just asking to get hit and that’s what happened to you.
I couldn’t remember the year (1966) E-4, digging out Bolling A.F.B. as was every e.m. on the base. 30-36 inches in about a two day time period, with drifts 25-30 feet tall.
Ah,sure you would.
I’ve been here the two times we’ve had snow and ice in the last six years. It was not a pretty site and our population has doubled since then. I grew up in Kansas so I do know how to drive on the ice and in snow but our cars all had stick shifts which made navigating easier.
Maybe your dil is more cautious and has less of a lead foot than you. LOL.
Actually, maybe that's exactly how to deal with it.
I grew up in a place where it took a couple feet of snow to close schools, and two inches was just a winter day. We had the equipment to handle snow.
Then I moved just outside the beltway. In the few years I was there, we got a couple inches maybe two or three times a year, which would then melt off the roads in a day or two. Does it make more sense to have enough equipment to clear a lot of roads after the occasional snow storm, or to just close schools (and most of DC) for a few days a year and let it melt?
Thanks for weighing in, have a great day.
10 whole inches? I lived in a place where we got over 500 inches in the course of the winter. Five feet in a day was not uncommon.
Yep - I always groan when I see a massive pileup and hear them blame it on the weather instead of the idiots who will not slow down for anything - even slick conditions and near zero visibility.
I learned to drive in a NY Winter and am appalled by all those who grew up with snow and ice yet never learned what it can do to the nut case.
An inch of snow is a nightmare, lol. What are these people going to do when TSHTF for real?
Every time it rains here in Florida it's easy to pick out the drivers who think they're immune to the laws of physics.
This has been going on forever. I grew up about 4 miles out from the DC/MD line. Plenty of winters we got decent snow. And my dad would take me to school in DC on his way to work(Pentagon).we’d be putt-putting along in the’64 VW bug,past all the cars strewn here and there by people who didn’t know how to drive in the snow. That was in the early 70’s.
I have a friend in VA and she sarcastically thought maybe the county was trying to”save”the salt and sand for “the big one” since she noticed they did nothing about what accumilated that day.
I’m in total agreement to taking a foot of snow over an inch or even a 1/4 inch of ice.
The one “nice” thing about Thursday’s little snow/ice debacle:
The President was forced to drive back to the White House from Andrews AFB during the mini-storm and he with his caravan was caught in the back up coming from Andrews back into the District and it, according to the local news, took him an hour and a half for the trip. The snow grounding Marine 1 from flying him back to the White House from Andrews.
Or actually know how to deal with.
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