Posted on 01/04/2022 9:46:13 AM PST by simpson96
Furious drivers stranded on I-95 in Virginia for more than 20 hours without gas, food and water are demanding that Governor Ralph Northam speed up rescue efforts as they resort to calling DoorDash in a dire effort to get food.
'We have to find a way to get national guard here. Diabetics and babies down here. People are going die here,' a friend told NBC's Jim Scarborough, who tweeted the quote in a plea to get people rescued faster as the 50-mile stretch of highway south of the nation’s capital was still closed Tuesday morning after six tractor-trailers jackknifed the day before.
Jim DeFede, who has been stuck on the interstate just south of Quantico for the past 24 hours, called I-95 'a complete parking lot' and was growing angry as his woes weren't answered and emergency personnel were not coming to his rescue.
'I don't know who's in charge but somebody better do something because there are cars and families just trapped here this entire time and nobody seems to be coming.
'I haven't seen a state trooper in at least 12 hours. I haven't seen a tow truck in at least 14 hours,' DeFede said in a video posted to Twitter.
Meanwhile, it appeared as though Northam was hoping the sun would help melt the snow and clear traffic. 'Sunlight is expected to help @VaDOT clear the road,' he said on Twitter.
But DeFede said that as of this morning, the road was still covered in ice.(snip)
Virginia State Senator Tim Kaine (snip) revealed that he is one of the people stuck in the snowy pile-up in a tweet early Tuesday that read: 'I started my normal 2 hour drive to DC at 1pm yesterday. 19 hours later, I’m still not near the Capitol.'
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Yup. Someday a similar occurrence will happen with deadly results for those driving all-electric cars.
Huron county here...3 inches in the gravel driveway... not enough to fire up the tractor for...
A lot of them are probably…you know…government employees.
Nope....But if they were there, once they run out of juice, the only way they're getting out is by tow truck and taken to the nearest charging station. Wherever that might be.
As for the gassers who might have run out of fuel, a quick gallon of gas will get them up and running....LOL!
We have always stored emergency supplies in our vehicles, including water bottles and snack bars. No matter where we go, or the weather conditions. Especially when driving over snowy mountain roads where roads can be blocked.
And many up there are still without power!
The problem is, those people KNOW how to drive in that weather, they just don’t think it’s going to happen to them! They get in a hurry and “DAMN THE STORM, FULL SPEED AHEAD!”
I have had trucks and cars pass me doing about 70 in an area of blinding snow or heavy fog, and doing 80 in rain, all on the Illinois tollway.
Egotistical Overconfidence, I call it. They’re the only ones on the road, doncha know?
It's understandable that nobody was going anywhere and for the fools expecting to be rescued, there is no way that was going to happen unless by dog sleds off the freeway.....
One snowstorm, VDOT dumped so much salt that the windshield on my car, which hadn’t been driven and which was parked 90 feet from the road, was crusted with salt residue.
This snowstorm, they used no salt at all.
Consistency.
Any incidents of cannibalism yet? You know...like Katrina?
Someone said elsewhere that VDOT plows were plowing the on-ramps to I95 even when the mainline hadn’t yet been plowed.
A “wipe before you poop” type of situation, but that’s typical for VDOT.
This portion of I95 is south of the Mason-Dixon line...
I’ve had idiots pass me in conditions like that on I-81 south of Syracuse.
Only to pass their overturned vehicle in the median a few miles up the road.
That looks like a beautiful, sunny day with roads in great condition.
Great point! And how long to get any useful charge into a single car? Say one service truck can charge two or maybe three cars from a single point, then you have to reposition the tow truck — compared to a minute or two to pour a couple of gallons of gas into the tank.
You are exactly right. FEMA is not a first responder. They come in after the event is over to help with recovery. First responders are the local police and fire and emergency management, which generally includes everybody from school bus drivers to the guys who cut trees off the road when they fall, and plows and salt and Red Cross for setting up shelters.
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