IT’S THE GLOBAL WARMING!!!
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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Salt is environmentally unsound because it hurts the fishies. So die, fossil-fuel-guzzling motorists! Let ‘em drink schnaps and wait.
Potato juice to warm your insides.................................
Is this an unusual event for this part of the country? I thought snow was fairly normal there. Why were so many caught unprepared? Sounds like something that would happen here in Houston if it snowed.
The Sierra Nevada between Reno & Sacramento got over 16 FEET of snow.
“How deep is the snow? 1/4 inch?”
I’ve long noted that the East Coast comes to a standstill when the snow exceeds six inches or more. At twelve inches they call out the National Guard.
One thing I will say for California is we can get six feet of snow along I-80 and most of the time the roads stay open. You put chains on your car and off you go.
Bunch of whiney DC bitchlets. Can’t even deal with something this elementary at the governmental, nor the personal level.
And they deign to think they have the ability to run America and the whole world.
Idiots.
“If your battery dies in your Tesla?”
Then so do you.
Ya start making people nearest the exits get off the freeway, it ain’t rocket science. The cars are not “stuck” they are stopped. I don’t get this nonsense!
I don’t understand why they got on the freeway to travel when there already were storm warnings? Without food, water, blankets, etc.
I’m near Fredericksburg and we got 11 inches here. I still don’t have power. I was supposed to go to work on 95 like those fools on Monday morning but I took one look at the forecast, called work and noped right on out of that.
Stuck at home but at least I got plenty of battery power to charge my phone. That said, I keep water and two wool blankets in my car alongside other emergency supplies
Heard one of the truckers had extra personal supplies she was sharing with others. Must have been rough if you didn’t have a full tank of gas.
I was talking about no 2-hour commutes in Alabama (unless it’s a very long-distance commute like south of Montgomery to Birmingham).
“...as as they resort to calling DoorDash in a dire effort to get food...”
“Yes, we’re stuck in the snow on I-95, and I just had a pizza from your restaurant delivered to me by Door Dash. It was cold when it got here. Can you please resend the order and make sure it’s hot this time? And really, if you could send a different driver. The last one was really surly.”
The further south you go, the less able to handle snow they get. I remember Atlanta and Savannah getting shut down over what a former Buffalonian such as myself would call a light frost.
Are they air dropping food and water? Quantico is right there-I assume they have a few helicopters.
I’ve gone to work with snow over 9 inches, unplowed roads, but I did have 4-wheek drive, but evenmwith 2 wheel, we,have to,putmup with quite a bit of snow in winter where plows haven’t plowed yet. Being backcountry. We just learned to deal,with it. Somemof,Somehow, mountain roads can bet tricky though
Here in Annapolis, we got 10”. Unusual. Being on the Bay usually moderates our snowfall. It happened over about 12 hours.
I always carry a thick sleeping bag blankets and pillows in the winter and I usually have coffee and bottles of water and left over Waffee from waffle House ....
When I stop at a Welcome Center to take a nap I crawl into the sleeping bag...
Why did you all go out in it then if you weren’t prepared?
Don’t do stupid things then blame everyone else when the consequences come back to bite you.
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