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[quote=Anonymous]According to a few stories on Richmond.com, the backups started around 8:30am Monday morning with semi’s either getting stuck or jack knifing, on both sides of 95.  I believe initially there was a total of 6 disabled or crashed trucks and then nearby cars either crashed into them, each other or went off the road trying to avoid crashing.  And then it rippled from there.

The main issues was that at that point VDOT did NOT close 95 mid morning on Monday which they should have and now admit was a mistake. 95 effectively was shut down, trucks, cars and snow blocked it in both directions; but by not officially shutting down 95 and blocking it off more cars accumulated and you got the 50 mile stretches of epic proportions. VDOT thought at 8:30-9am they could still plow and tow in time, and the snow just went beserk and they couldn’t keep up. By the time VDOT did “close” 95 the situation was out of control.

I think the overwhelming majority of people who got stuck did not start out like Kaine; they probably left early in the morning and thought they could out drive the storm/or they were starting from the south and didn’t think it would be as bad as it was. Even VDOT didn’t think it would be as bad as it was. And these people got stuck very early, like around 8:30-9am and thus started out much earlier. I have no idea how Kaine can be so dumb to leave his houses at 1pm, drive into this mess, get off in Fredericksburg and get BACK ON. WHY?! Given in Richmond it was pretty light (I have family there and we were exchanging pictures of the snow Monday morning), but seriously, WITW is wrong with him?[/quote]

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