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

Forum Index » Off-Topic

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

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one can walk between the cars with water bottles and granola bars...maybe some diapers?[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.  [/quote]

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?[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics