[lightman]

VA Governor Youngkin’s first big test: I-81.

[Viking2002]

Yeah, remember that big pile-up on 81 Northbound about ten years ago? I drove through it the day after, and it was still a mess. Cars and trucks just pushed off into the snow bank on the shoulder, to get traffic moving again. 81 is a road warrior’s endurance test and always seems to be one snowflake away from a major closure.

[metmom]

No kidding.

I-81 is a nightmare from Syracuse all the way down.

North of Syracuse, there’s nothing but Watertown so traffic is not usually a problem, however that section of 81 goes through the Lake Ontario snow belt and across Tug Hill so gets slammed regularly.

Sometimes they even have to break out the tanks from Fort Drum to pull the snowplows out of drifts.

[Darnright]

“VA Governor Youngkin’s first big test: I-81.”

https://www.weatherbug.com/traffic-cam/?latlng=37.124296,-80.385814

Looks like the highway department is holding its own so far. MLK day will keep traffic down tomorrow, so things shouldn’t be that bad.

[palmer]

I'm about 10 miles east of 81 and had about 7 inches of dense snow grains and pellets, sleet, and freezing rain with a temperature of about 14-15 degrees. Gonna be a b shoveling it.