Well, they did have 14+ inches of snow in the Fredericksburg area where the trucks got stuck and blocked all lanes of traffic preventing snowplows from doing their job. However, as I recall, every time I see a snowstorm in the news in upstate NY, Wisconsin and Minnesota, etc., I always see a bunch of cars in the ditch, jackknifed trucks and blocked cars and I’m told Yankees know how to drive in the snow. Apparently, not.
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?