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

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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.

Except there are stories of people who were leaving night shift jobs at hospitals for example, and just trying to drive home

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Anonymous wrote:Tim Kaine is among those still stuck!

There is a God

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Anonymous wrote:No one can walk between the cars with water bottles and granola bars...maybe some diapers?

So the affected area was 50 miles long. Who do you expect to walk 50 miles carrying boxes of water, granola bars and diapers? All available DOT crew were either working on snow removal on accessible roads, or helping with the traffic issues with the 18 wheelers that had crashed due to ice and snow or helping direct traffic or a million other things going on. Additionally, the highway was so jammed that emergency crew trying to get to the crashes were having problems accessing the accidents. How do you expect those walkers to actually get to the vehicles. Do you want to be assigned to walk for 50 miles carrying cases of emergency rations and trying to deliver it them to thousands of standed vehicles?

That's about as realistic as the person who suggested an emergency helicopter rescue for Senator Kaine. I guess as long as your car isn't the one having a helicopter land on it, you're okay, right?

Some of you people have absolutely no concept of logistics when you make these suggestions.

Yeah the National Guard, Fema, the Red Cross...they know how to do things like that. It is not like 1 guy goes out with a box on his shoulder.

I understand. But the highway was blocked for 50 miles. The emergency vehicles trying to get to the accident sites had troubles because of the traffic and there were places where the shoulders were impassable because of piles of snow and cars that had veered off the roadway. If road crews and emergency vehicles were not able to get through to the accident sites how do you think the National Guard, FEMA, or the Red Cross would have been able to get through? Did they discover new phasing technology to just be able to drive through cars and snow banks? The reason it took over 24 hours to clear the road was that there were so many accidents that they had to clear accidents to get to others. There were some accidents that it took nearly 20 hours just for road crews to reach. If they couldn't get there, how were you expecting these other groups to get there?

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

He has lived here for eons. He knows we cannot handle snowstorms especially while it is still actively heavily snowing

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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!

I can guarantee you that in this neck of the woods, a whole bunch of people were not American citizens and were from other parts of the world where there is little snow. I am from New England and bought a Hummer first spring after a bad winter. Never drove anything but 4WDs here due to the idiots on the road and it has gotten worse.

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At least now I know that it isn’t just schools that are irrevocably messed up. Everything is f*ked.

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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!

Gee, you sound real nice.

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

And yet he is a former Mayor of Richmond and Governor of Virginia who had executive authority over VDOT. He should not be standing about after his decades of so-called service in disbelief. His job is to fix this stuff!

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

He has lived here for eons. He knows we cannot handle snowstorms especially while it is still actively heavily snowing

I’m really surprised he left at 1pm in the middle of a snowstorm of a hellish drive. He should know better.

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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!

I can guarantee you that in this neck of the woods, a whole bunch of people were not American citizens and were from other parts of the world where there is little snow. I am from New England and bought a Hummer first spring after a bad winter. Never drove anything but 4WDs here due to the idiots on the road and it has gotten worse.

A hummer lol
Joke vehicle

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Why did they shut the highway down? Wouldn’t it have been better to let drivers drive painfully slow?

I guess they had to figure out how to move the disabled tractor trailers?

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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!

I can guarantee you that in this neck of the woods, a whole bunch of people were not American citizens and were from other parts of the world where there is little snow. I am from New England and bought a Hummer first spring after a bad winter. Never drove anything but 4WDs here due to the idiots on the road and it has gotten worse.

A hummer lol
Joke vehicle

Hospitals loved it. Could get their medical personnel to and from

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Anonymous wrote:I’m surprised we haven’t seen tweets from Jose Andres describing the meals his team is delivering to the stranded motorists and plow drivers. He certainly seems to find a way to overcome logistical challenges.

Thank you. This is the best.

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I had to talk my dh out of driving from Richmond to Woodbridge Monday morning to pick up a bookcase at ikea.