The morning news has been covering a total botch-all on Virginia interstate 95. This highway is a main road, into and out of. the District of Columbia. Every day during rush hours it is filled with federal workers and others heading home from work.
Yesterday Virginia, DC and Maryland had a huge snow fall and not much in road clearing was done. Here is what happened, something which is the stuff of travel nightmares.
"Hundreds of motorists were stranded all night in snow and freezing temperatures along a 50-mile stretch of Interstate 95 after a crash involving six tractor-trailers in Virginia, where authorities were struggling Tuesday to reach them.
Both directions of traffic on I-95 came to a standstill Monday between Ruther Glen, Virginia, in Caroline County and exit 152 in Dumfries, Prince William County, the Virginia Department of Transportation said. “Crews will start taking people off at any available interchange to get them,” the agency tweeted at 5:20 a.m. Tuesday.
The tractor-trailer collision Monday afternoon caused no injuries, but brought traffic to a standstill, and it became impossible to move as the snow accumulated. Hours passed with hundreds of motorists posting increasingly desperate messages on social media about running out of fuel, food and water"
The images of bumper to bumper traffic at a stand still for miles since yesterday afternoon and all through the night is stuff of nightmares. 19 hours!