On I-95 in Virginia for 10 hours

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Joey4speed

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Morning.
Driving home yesterday from NY,
Had to stay overnight in VA. What a friggin mess, many people left stranded on 95. I never saw trees come down blocking lanes on this open road. Lucky to make it off and find gas and a hotel over an hour away, side roads near Garrisonville looked like this.
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Easy scenario where one could freeze to death, once you ran out of gas.
No cell service. Exits blocked with semi trucks and buses sideways. Cars and trucks off the road and down ravines everywhere.
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I’m glad you’re safe. I’m in Northern VA and for a place that gets snow usually 1-2 times a season, they are notoriously bad at removal. Many trees down in my neighborhood too. Wife had to go get the on-call bag from work yesterday morning right before it all started then couldn’t come home because our neighborhood wasn’t plowed. Missed her window and had to sit there until the roads started to freeze. Barely got home between the time the roads were plowed and when they started to freeze.

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Just think how it would have been if your car was electric and battery went dead! Glad you made it through without being in accident, Joe
 
I had to drive home from work in that mess yesterday morning it was terrible. I was on 81 not 95 but same difference lol glad you made it unscathed!
 
Wet heavy snow and lots of it. Downed trees and powerlines. Not a good combination. Good that you made it home safely.
 
I hate I-95, even without snow and ice. Glad you are safe.

I don't envy him one bit. Glad he got out of there OK. Where I am at (Richmond) is literally between 2 nightmare driving destinations (Norfolk and DC.) How people deal with it everyday is beyond me. I did Courier work in DC when I had my biz and the stories I could tell lol....

JW
 
WOW. WOW!!! That is some serious looking stuff

"No cell service".........And here we have the big companies pushing 4G-5G and they cannot even provide decent coverage with what we have now. Up here in the PNW, you don't have to get far away from "somewhere" to lose cell coverage.
 
WOW. WOW!!! That is some serious looking stuff

"No cell service".........And here we have the big companies pushing 4G-5G and they cannot even provide decent coverage with what we have now. Up here in the PNW, you don't have to get far away from "somewhere" to lose cell coverage.

Networks are built for a percentage of capacity and normal transit of people through. That many people, stationary, overwhelmed the network and probably combined with power outtage crushed anything that was available. Chances are if the network didn't lose power the users in the cell would have killed it
 
I spent Christmas and New Years in North Carolina, OBX, and left there on New Years day. Guess I was lucky that I left.
 
Wow!
Glad you made it safely.
...and to think I was feeling cold this morning in SoCal when my dashboard thermometer showed 37F outside without any of that nasty white stuff!
 
Wow!
Glad you made it safely.
...and to think I was feeling cold this morning in SoCal when my dashboard thermometer showed 37F outside without any of that nasty white stuff!

I didn't think we would have frost this morning from yesterday's forecast. Wrong! It was out there. :lol:
 
Just FYI for those not familiar - this area doesn't get much snow any given season and when it does it causes total chaos. Mostly because the temp hovers around freezing even during snowfall. The ice hazards tend to catch experienced snow drivers off guard. And the state govt doesn't commit significant resources to snow removal for major thoroughfares (they're busy destroying the rest of the state).
 
Glad you're ok.
Not to hijack the conversation.
My brother has a Tesla and honestly I wonder what safety measure are available to keep from freezing to death in situations like this.
Gasoline vehicles can run out of gas and refilled and can still freeze to death if fuel NA?
I'm sure no reports will be made of stranded electric vehicles.
Hybrids can recharge given there is gas available
I guess use electric sparingly till rescued(?)
 
Glad you're ok.
Not to hijack the conversation.
My brother has a Tesla and honestly I wonder what safety measure are available to keep from freezing to death in situations like this.
Gasoline vehicles can run out of gas and refilled and can still freeze to death if fuel NA?
I'm sure no reports will be made of stranded electric vehicles.
Hybrids can recharge given there is gas available
I guess use electric sparingly till rescued(?)
Normally id say natural selection...but buying a tesla puts you on the wrong end of that
 
Just FYI for those not familiar - this area doesn't get much snow any given season and when it does it causes total chaos. Mostly because the temp hovers around freezing even during snowfall. The ice hazards tend to catch experienced snow drivers off guard. And the state govt doesn't commit significant resources to snow removal for major thoroughfares (they're busy destroying the rest of the state).
Couldn’t agree more. I grew up in a snow state and have been here in VA since 2007. We can count on at least one a year if you average them out. They’re consistently terrible at prep and recovery here. Hopefully the new Gov will shift back towards common sense and the common man. Wife and I were just scratching our heads about it. Somewhere, there’s a lengthy report or study that shows why it costs more money, whatever excuse, that keeps them from taking care of business the right way when it snows here. You can’t tell me that all of 95 being gridlocked is more economical than shoveling and salting the roads.
 
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