VIDEOS OF I-95 SHUTDOWN: People Stuck for 24-Hours on I-95 in Virginia. Where’s Mayor Pete?
I woke up this morning in sunny South Florida to these videos and tweet:
Do we have a Secretary of Transportation?
Asking for abandoned Virginians on I-95.
— Larry O'Connor (@LarryOConnor) January 4, 2022
People were stuck on I-95 for 24 hours in Virginia. Is Pete Buttigieg still on maternity leave? What a total loser and failure!
— Susan St. James (@SusanStJames3_) January 5, 2022
Amanda Holpuch, Derrick Bryson Taylor and from the New York Times reported:
Emergency crews on Tuesday afternoon freed the last of hundreds of drivers stranded by a snowstorm on Interstate 95 in Virginia, after more than 24 shivering hours of watching gas gauges drop, rationing food and water and holding out for any kind of help.
A 40-mile stretch of the highway — one of the busiest travel corridors in the United States — came to a standstill overnight after a fast-falling snowstorm led to jackknifed tractor-trailers and hundreds of other accidents. Some people abandoned their cars. Many, including a U.S. senator, spent the night on the snowy highway.
As people spent a sleepless night in driver’s seats and truck cabs, state troopers slowly trudged from person to person, helping when they could with supplies. Tow trucks dragged car after disabled car out of the ice.
from the GOP Times reported:
Thousands of people are trapped in their cars, with no food or water. Worse, after nearly a full day, many vehicles are running out of gas. That’s a bad thing, because there goes the heat. Virginia road crews were unable to cope with “major snowstorms” that dumped a foot of snow on Monday.
Trapped 20 hours
Motorists have been trapped in their vehicles for 20 hours and counting, with no relief in sight. Roads and highways across the state of Virginia “continue to be clogged,” Newsweek reports on Tuesday, January 4.
Among various notables stranded in the chaos is Virginia Senator Tim Kaine. By 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, Hillary Clinton’s pick for Vice President in 2016 was tapping out his ire on Twitter.
“I started my normal 2 hour drive to DC at 1pm yesterday, 19 hours later, I’m still not near the Capitol.” Kaine posted.
And winter has only just started.
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Don’t worry lads, things like this are resolved by a quick jab of xenobots to the brain with remote monitoring 24/7! (Replacement organs after failure not included)