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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Driving in the snow isn’t the problem for me.
It’s the other drivers.
Yeah, and almost 50% of Americans are overweight. They could benefit from burning off some blubber by not eating for 20 hours. I’m sure none of the stranded people were going to starve. Live off all of that accumulated fat while you’re waiting to be rescued. It’ll be good for you.
The Donner party survived by first boiling down their buffalo robes into a paste that they ate. Only after all of that was gone did they start eating each other. Many of them refused to resort to cannibalism, even then, and they managed to survive on almost nothing to eat. During the Dust Bowl, Americans survived by eating yucca roots. We’re now a bunch of wusses.
Yeah, we probably got carried away. Briggs came out with a 26 kW while our 20 was on order and it wasn’t much to go bigger. We needed fewer “load shed modules” with the larger generator, so we saved a bundle there. Our utility is going “green” so I figure that power will become increasingly unreliable. This way I can run the AC during upcoming summer outages. I plan to stick a 7.5 kW electric heater in the garage, but we will probably shed that load if the power goes out and the generator goes on.
I wanted to do this once and one time only. I also poured a 9” thick concrete slab that sticks about 4” underground and 5” above. So it’s got a SOLID base, too. Plus I ran the gas and electric lines underground as well.
It’s on the natural gas line. I think most of the compressor stations have their own generator backup units, so there should be less risk of the gas going out. But who knows what Brandon will do.
If the gas goes out, there’s no heat in the house anyway, so we’d have to pack up and head way south!
If it gets really bad, I can always install a propane tank. But who knows if the commies will let the market provide propane.
If only we had a Transportation Secretary who could deal with these kinds of problems.
Chuggites: Free money, big pensions, no accountability the lot of them. They pant for even more build back watch TV better.
globull warming
Doesn't look that hard to do.
That does seem to be their plan.
“Up” wasn’t the only direction they screwed them. And I’ll say no more than that.
No. I was working on the coast during the week and would travel 3 1/2 hours home on weekends. Always had a full charge on my phone before i would leave.
6 hours of streaming videos before I stopped and left myself with 5% charge.
yup
Especially the ones who go too slow!
Well I'm not!
I am undertall.
Your installation sounds well engineered.
LOL…thanks. Maybe because I’m a mechanical / power engineer?
Get propane now. Unlike gasoline, it’ll keep forever!
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how+long+can+you+store+propane&ia=web
“I guess people up North like to wait on Biden to rescue them. The Government holdup is they must be Covid tested and vaccinated before rescue. Note: if illegal status they get rescue.”
They’ll sit there and freeze to death a half mile walk from a restaurant. You can’t fix stupid.
Our yard is not well suited for a propane tank. We are hooked up to the NATURAL gas line, not using gasoline.
I wanted a system that would operate for long periods if we are away on vacation. I was dismayed to learn from the guy who sold it that the Briggs air cooled engines will use over a quart of oil in a week of constant running and they only hold two quarts! That’s worrisome. Unfortunately, it didn’t occur to me to ask about oil consumption rates before I bought it. I’ll have to rope a neighbor into feeding it oil every week if we are away and a long outage hits.
The other thing that surprised me is they don’t have a good consumer app to keep tabs on the machine remotely. They have a rudimentary app, but you have to install a module and subscribe for $10/month. Everybody wants a recurring revenue stream!
Drones? Robots?
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