I95 Richmond to the Beltway people suck in cars for 17 plus hours

[Anonymous]

They should've called the Natl Guard out ...as in yesterday afternoon at the latest.

[Anonymous]

The latest:
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/virginia/interstate-95-virginia-traffic-backup-after-winter-storm/65-1b285291-4e5c-4292-8c80-fa70bea55fd1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in Finland where my parents were posted. This sort of snowfall that happened yesterday in Virginia is a weekly occurrence there. Traffic doesn’t grind to a halt, roads get plowed, and something like this would be unheard of. The only thing that failed here is idiotic American drivers and their pathetically funded infrastructure system.

But hey, you pay almost nothing in taxes for the privilege of such failures. Enjoy being a laughingstock to the rest of the world. ‘Murcia! Wooo-hooo hee haw!

Aww, how cute.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:That section of 95 has been f’ed up for years. This is the republicans for not fixing our infrastructure. Billions in Afghanistan and tax cuts for the rich but you are on your own when driving on a federal highway.

I heard the toll road was open but they were charging $2.53 and people would rather sit for 27 hrs vs pay the toll.

Okay, except for the fact that Dems currently control the Executive and both legislative houses at the federal level and in Virginia. What ate you smoking?

So Biden has been in office a year and you think he should have fixed this? You know it takes a few years to build a highway. Do you remember Trump was in power for 4 years. The only thing he did was a tax cut for the rich and businesses. Trump campaigned on an infrastructure plan. The republicans said no that just like they voted against Biden infrastructure bill.

Eh, we can play this stupid game all day long. Why didn't Obama fix everything by ending the filibuster when he had the chance and make I95 a paradise when he was President? The DC area is growing like crazy and people want to live here and move here despite the crappy traffic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why they didn't pre-treat 95/495.

I get that no one believed the snow would stick due to the warm temps, especially so much of it. But I drove on it Sunday night around 8pm, and there was no pre treatment on the highway whatsoever. Nada.

VDOT has stated that they couldn’t pre-treat the roads because this storm started as rain and everything would’ve washed away.

I don't believe that. There was never pouring rain. Temps fell fast, and it was light freezing rain and sleet before switching to snow. I don't think VDOT believed the weather forecasts like most of us. It was dry when I drove home Sunday night, and there was no pre treatment anywhere, so they didn't even try.

It poured in the middle of the night before the snow started.

The pre-treatment wouldn't have worked for the same reason that the snow stuck, even though the pavement was nowhere near freezing, it had been 60 degrees earlier, it was coming down at such a fast clip. My DS took his sled out while it was still snowing, left it on the lawn, and came back into the house, 45 mins later there had to have been 6 inches of snow on the sled.

Not much you can do about that intensity.

Maybe VDOT/this area can stop pretending this area does not get snow. Maybe it can take notes on what snowy jurisdictions do, like other jurisdictions. Maybe the people who are supposed to be treating/clearing the roads can not be so lazy.

[Anonymous]

No one blames Biden, Buttitieg and Northam in mainstream media for this catastrophe. Wonder why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The cable news station are covering this now. This is the worst part of 95 always backed up. Any surprise with a snowstorm it is shut down? When are they going yo fit it?

I went out Sunday afternoon to fill car with gas and a few groceries because I listened to weather forecast of possible accumulation of 7 inches. So the real question is why were these idiots out on Monday. I can't work up too much sympathy for stupidity!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The cable news station are covering this now. This is the worst part of 95 always backed up. Any surprise with a snowstorm it is shut down? When are they going yo fit it?

I went out Sunday afternoon to fill car with gas and a few groceries because I listened to weather forecast of possible accumulation of 7 inches. So the real question is why were these idiots out on Monday. I can't work up too much sympathy for stupidity!

And one of them was US Sen Kaine. It must be nice to go to work at 1PM.(WTH?) and be oblivious that traffic is gridlocked and then be dumb enough to Tweet about it. Lol.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, more people should have listened to the weather forecast and stayed off the road. Pre-treatment applications aren't designed to accommodate near regular traffic flows through a winter storm. It was snowing too heavily and there were too many cars/trucks on the road. It only took a few tractor trailer spinouts for chaos to ensue.

This. Plus, this was a mess all the way into DC - people couldn't make it up the incline of the exit to 210 (I think?) near DC. Then it's just a chain reaction, plows can't get through and everyone is stuck.

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There were just too many people on the road, and it was clear early on that the snow was heavy. It only takes one or two accidents and there's not much anyone can do to resolve it quickly. I honestly don't know why so many people were out -- the schools were all closed, the federal government was closed, I'm sure many other offices who follow the feds were closed, too -- what were all those people doing? Everyone knows that Virginia isn't used to handling that kind of snowstorm because it's not common.

No dear, “everyone” doesn’t know this.

Some of us are smart enough to understand that as the climate changes and the planet gets hotter and hotter, that snowstorms like this will be more and more common because of all the added moisture in the atmosphere.

And Virginia just elected a guy who has promised policies that will make the planet even hotter.

So I hope you like snowstorms like this. There will be a lot more in the future.

The party jumpers who got him elected don’t care about that. Their vote was just a mommy temper tantrum about distance learning.

Damn right. And thankfully it worked

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I grew up in Finland where my parents were posted. This sort of snowfall that happened yesterday in Virginia is a weekly occurrence there. Traffic doesn’t grind to a halt, roads get plowed, and something like this would be unheard of. The only thing that failed here is idiotic American drivers and their pathetically funded infrastructure system.

But hey, you pay almost nothing in taxes for the privilege of such failures. Enjoy being a laughingstock to the rest of the world. ‘Murcia! Wooo-hooo hee haw!

Aww, how cute.

Regions with weekly major snowfall know how to deal with snow better than regions where it’s rare?? Wow please tell us more. Or am I too American to understand?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in Finland where my parents were posted. This sort of snowfall that happened yesterday in Virginia is a weekly occurrence there. Traffic doesn’t grind to a halt, roads get plowed, and something like this would be unheard of. The only thing that failed here is idiotic American drivers and their pathetically funded infrastructure system.

But hey, you pay almost nothing in taxes for the privilege of such failures. Enjoy being a laughingstock to the rest of the world. ‘Murcia! Wooo-hooo hee haw!

Aww, how cute.

Regions with weekly major snowfall know how to deal with snow better than regions where it’s rare?? Wow please tell us more. Or am I too American to understand?

And I could make fun of Europeans who die of heatstroke every time there’s a heatwave because they haven’t invested in A/C. But I don’t because I’m not an a$$hole.

[Anonymous]

A helpful reminder of what a podunk state it still is.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The cable news station are covering this now. This is the worst part of 95 always backed up. Any surprise with a snowstorm it is shut down? When are they going yo fit it?

I went out Sunday afternoon to fill car with gas and a few groceries because I listened to weather forecast of possible accumulation of 7 inches. So the real question is why were these idiots out on Monday. I can't work up too much sympathy for stupidity!

And one of them was US Sen Kaine. It must be nice to go to work at 1PM.(WTH?) and be oblivious that traffic is gridlocked and then be dumb enough to Tweet about it. Lol.

27 hours. You guys have very low standards for the department of transportation and police.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The cable news station are covering this now. This is the worst part of 95 always backed up. Any surprise with a snowstorm it is shut down? When are they going yo fit it?

I went out Sunday afternoon to fill car with gas and a few groceries because I listened to weather forecast of possible accumulation of 7 inches. So the real question is why were these idiots out on Monday. I can't work up too much sympathy for stupidity!

So many of us have been such on 95 for hours just with a few wrecks and summer traffic. There's nowhere to bail out.

It's lunacy that people were driving in the middle of a snowstorm.

[Anonymous]

Tim Kaine who lived in St. Paul, Minnesota and Missouri, probably can't believe the DMV doesn't know how to handle a snowstorm.