Thousands of cars were brought to a standstill after a massive storm dropped a foot of snow, overwhelming road crews and trapping thousands of people in their cars.
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#Virginia #I95 #WinterStorm
Blue state Government
Who are they going to blame?
They should blame the drivers who attempted to drive thru it and got stuck.
Trains would help clear up those clogged roads from all those cars
So would heat from nukes
There was snow plows in wv early morning on the 3rd, they were expecting the same. Too bad WV was much better prepared. Just excuses from VA.
WAIT….Did you type, “Too bad WV was prepared?” LMMFAAAAOOOOOOOO It’s too bad huh?
People who travel always have food,water and blankets
But not brains to know stay off the road during a blizzard.
Why didn’t the STATE POLICE set up a detour on I95 Northbound, so they could turn the cars around at the TAIL END of the traffic jam? Then simply direct them to go south to the safest exits. Could have had them following snow plows! Seems like it would have been quicker than waiting for the accidents up ahead to be cleared up.
You have a point there janett
im just saying, for anyone complaining that the Gov. doesn’t do much. Humanity can and would never be able to go against mother nature.
The lucky ones over there have a nice rv!
Bathrooms? What happened there? Did anyone deliver water etc. or food?or blankets?
I guess I’m just wondering if there was a relief plan in place:)
thank gosh i was not in the traffic but our power went out and that also means no heater or fridge we where piled up in blankets with my cat and we left to a hotel to be soon kicked out by the cops because the owner was racist and felt she had to kick us out because my mom asked for clean blaket cuz the hotel didnt clean our room and we packed went to another hotel it was booked and 1hour later at 1am got to hotel had to unpack and go to sleep
I sure do see a lot of bare pavement
Praying all are safe. Situations like these certainly humbles people. We often take so much for granted.
Yeah this is what humbles people… greetings from Africa
@Cling Clong Democrats communist 😂 Why are Americans so weird.
@L M
Democrats are Communist… they love Chinese Communist Party and seek to emulate them for US
it was literally a traffic jam. It would lowkey be fun if it was with me and my friends
Crazy Joe Biden made it home with the help of the military, THANK GOD!
Too bad everyone shot down Obama’s bullet train up and down the East Coast. Yeah America… We’re falling behind the rest of the world. Welcome to the relic of the 1950 suburban dream.
You would think Mother Nature was trying to tell people to stay home.
All the electric cars need to be charged up and are blocking the road no one can get by them with no power for the heater >>
Flight cancelation
I live here. I95 is a problem on a good day! I’ve learned to keep emergency supplies in my car. Never leave the house on such days with kids.
My dad lives in Fredericksburg, his job is 30 minutes away it takes him an hour to get there because of I 95.
Oh spare me. The government can’t be held responsible for the weather.
HAARP
Giving out food and no toilets! 👀😑
Welcome to DC. We can’t handle one inch of snow.
🧐🧐🧐✌️
Oh thank god the senator made it to Washington
I think the weather will get worse this upcoming months.
This is a learning lesson. Always have your gas tank above 3/4. Have a few bottles of water, non perishables in the trunk. “Hot pack” hand and feet warmer pouches and 2 BIG candles with a lighter. At least those candles will give you heat and you dont need to burn fuel non-stop.
Pray all you want, praying will not get you anything, what a farce—drama story. Just watch the weather. Pump up the story with–oh no–the elderly, children and their pets all stranded in their cars. Pretty sad when you have to use children and elderly in all news stories just to make it sound worse.
Always have a emergency pack in your vehicle!! That was one of the first few things my mother taught me when I was learning to drive !
I agree. When I use to travel from Texas to NC, I would keep a blanket in the back, along with food, extra water, toilet paper, wipes, etc. just in case I was impacted by snow, or other road hazard, and couldn’t get help. It’s always wise when traveling anywhere. I’m glad everyone made it out okay.
What is emergency pack?
@Deep B what Brittany just said , you can buy a first aide emergency pack that you leave in your vehicle ! Some road flares glow sticks and some kitty litter… I also have a little battery emergency jump which can jump start a car or charge anything that has a USB !
Stay home folks
100%
This is Virginia for you. But it’s not the DC region so I don’t know the reporter said that
How come Virginia was the only place affected by the snow 🤷🏻 and not anywhere else
Wow that’s wild. Thankful I don’t really have to worry about things like metro traffic or interstate.
Can you even imagine what a catastrophe this would have been if all these people were in electric cars ? Govt. need to think of things like this before cramming electric cars down our throats ?
People buy those cars because *THEY CHOSE TO* not because they were forced. The govt isn’t cramming that trash down anyone’s throat.
@E Double Where have you been for the last year ? They { govt. ) want to eliminate fossil fuel down the road , what does that leave ? ans – elect cars .
@Sparky Wirenut for the last almost 60 years I’ve been in America. Sane the the time that I served this country and retired from military service so people in this country could continue to be free. Hope that a answers your question.
Now I have one for you.
Can you name *ONE PERSON* who was FORCED by the US government to buy an electric vehicle?
People buy them of their own free will because they choose to.
@E Double It’s coming , if you think eliminatinf fossil fuels isn’t elect cars you’re missing the point . btw , I’ve got 12 years on you and also served in vietnam , but what does that have to do with it ?
@Sparky Wirenut It’s coming *IS NOT* the same as it is! And I only told you about my military experience because you asked a specific question about where have I been. I don’t care what’s coming or how old you are, people buy those cars because *THEY CHOOSE TO BUY THEM* Nobody is or can force them to. Despite your suspicion of our government.
Where was Gov Coonman Northam? Typical for Va – say the rain would wash away salt and then spread it after the road conditions cause accidents. Lived there for 40 years and the salt trucks only ran after bridges iced up and cars spun out. I would rather waste salt than put peoples lives at risk.
NJ DOT would pre treat roads several days before a storm. It was like that famous hot sauce. They’d put that sh*t on everyhing.
People put their own lives at risk. Driving from boston to florida in a blizzard?! They deserved to be stuck!
All these bum liberals blaming elected governor that is not sworn in yet
um yeah im definetly not fleeing california. im good
CA is a big state. Snow in some places.
My heart goes out to people on 95 .Next day we stay in traffic for 15 hours. There was still working on roads.
A “Rain Event”. Hahahaha
That’s what cracks me up, the winterizing can be done in the rain, because usually before it snows, it rains. How did we ever manage before?
Add temperature of 20 below, that’s nothing
The same thing happened to me in January of 1984 on the same stretch of road. A cold rain turned to freezing rain and locked down the highway. I had a full tank of fuel, food, and warm clothes with me but we were there for 13 hours, and there were no cell phones. This is weather folks, it happens! If you travel I-95 in the winter you should be prepared for this kind of event. Keep some water, food, and a blanket in your car and don’t let your fuel go below 1/2 tank. BTW, I-95 has some very steep hills between DC and Fredericksburg Va. You can’t blame this on the politicians, it’s the weather!
Playing video games to pass the time. What a trial
They shouldn’t be traveling on the roads in winter time🤷♀️
National guard sent food and water by helicopter????
Not that I’ve heard. I did hear VA was given a bunch of old military equipment to cops… but they thought it was too military for cops to have it, so they no longer have it.
Sound healthy! This is America after all!
you better believe in God or else lol
American infrastructure at its best
You give them billions for infrastructure and it just goes in people’s pockets and they say “we need new infrastructure!”
Kudos to this other story of a bread truck that just started handing out bread to people so everyone would have something to eat.
state should reimburse everyone because they failed the citizens
I just wanted to see people be airlifted
This is crazy what if people needed to eat or their medicine. Omg poor kids!!! How tf no one helped these people like come on, smh
A few years ago China had a traffic jam that lasted for 9 days.
Joe Biden – “ That’s terrible, but sounds like a YOU problem, and not a MY problem..”
Isn’t it a federal highway?
Praying for everyone’s safety to just sit there & record the whole time
If cars and trucks were equipped with heat blowers under the car powered from the engine heat would road crews be needed as much? If this works how much money would this save States?
Lot of bad drivers out there.
Thank goodness!!!! It’s ok everyone, senator Tim Kane made it to the capitol!!!! We’re gonna be ok 🙏
Was he going for the J6 vigil?
@Games That I Play 😹
I Always do 55 in ice storm an I need new tires
BLM
Yup
So much for gLoBaL wArMiNG
That’s why they changed to climate change as a catch all so nobody could say “global warming” or “global cooling.” Perhaps if we give them billions of dollars, we can appease Mother Nature.
🙏😢💔
The same communist government (aka the Democrats) who couldn’t provide a resolution to this not-too-unexpected emergency wants to also run our daycare, elderly care, medicine, education
they want to “Build Back Better”, when they can’t even clear snow from the highway
That’s why you carry a gun, just in case.
What we want on YouTube are independent journalists! We don’t want mainstream media! That is why we are here on this platform looking for real news! Real reporting!
Excellent response from the Democratic leadership. The new governor should be sworn in asap. The Democrats have destroyed America enough.
“no restroom” – Wrong!
Everywhere is a rest room if you’re brave enough.
Stealth campers shine in this kind of situation.
This is essentially more about people not being able to adapt to weather, not the actual weather..
How can you adapt to weather when the roads are ice? So if you’re a super good driver and you adapt to the weather, The logic of ice doesn’t exist?
That’s why you don’t go out if you really don’t have reschedule your trip for another day …
“The Day the Earth Stood 🌎 Still”
Looks like the zombie movies where the interstates are full of cars 🤣
Might have to walk
So none of these dummies planning road trips does a weather check? And in all seasons to keep an eye on, the winter. This pandemic is not clearing out the useless fast enough😡
Not even the people plowing roads chose a weather check. They knew the blizzard was coming for days. It didn’t rain for days before this.
this is extremely horrible! hope everyone will be ok
DUH, the extreme snow event, cold temps coming that way had been broadcast for days in advance. Had people watched & thought about their travel they should have cancelled or put food, H2O, juices, etc, sleeping bags & blankets, winter protective clothing & packed chemical packets of body warmers, flashlights, etc – prepped stuff to get them thru. Never letting their gas tanks fall below 1/2. Not all that difficult to help your self. Mother Nature Rules.
They knew about this blizzard for days. It didn’t rain for days ahead of time.
Exactly, I live in Virginia there was no rain. It was failure by Fredericksburg county.
God knows how to stop anybody make believe world they live in.
crass hoodie in a MSM bit. wow
Phew, good thing senator Kane made it out safe. He seemed to be the only one out there.
Keep blankets in your cars and kitty litter and charcoal get one of those stand up things to pee in as a emergency thing for your car the president things you can find in the camping section
Keep extra food and stuff this is a lesson learned I’m soooo sorry tot hose people
To those
Peeing thing not president this phone sometimes just writes stuff the pee thing can be found in the camping section
Make a lot of home made soups I’m new to the area so we don’t have a generator
We need to increase the government budget to deal with these problems.
This is the reason why I’m ready for everything in my car. My trunk has things for hiking, beach,camping, rain, and even in the cold day. And my family think I’m crazy. 🤔 one more thing my ice cooler
We need a disaster for us to come together. Just saying.
I personally drive through 3-5 inches of snow multiple times a year. Now add 45-50 mph winds and you might have something. Just saying!!!!!
I left from New York back home to North Carolina the very same time as the snow started to come down. Luckily I used Google navigation and it showed heavy red traffic all over, but the traffic where I was were still slowly moving. Stop and Go traffic no more than 5mph. I manage to get off the next ramp and took the backroad. By time I got near Richmond, I got txt alert on my phone about hwy closures and stuff. That is probably one of the best decision I made.
What does it take for everyone to bow their knee to the Lord?!?
Sooner or later someone’s gonna have to take a dump ….. boy that’s going to be cold. Hopefully they will have butt wipe. Lol.
What a good time to have electric cars
lol
I found that HONKING alot helped.
Yeah baby bring on those electric cars and see how well they do in circumstances like this
My hpv was terrible and painful but I am very happy that I was able to cure myself from HPV with DR ALUDA herbal medication on YouTube.
Infrastructure bill 😹 this is what you get people you been fooled.
That’s a scuff of snow in Canada.
Could you imagine All electric vehicles.?
I would like to see how all the tesla owners defending their precious cars if they were stuck there
No Shining(the movie) no worries.
so why did they not start moving over to the right and sending in plow trucks and pour salts? why leave stranded for hours? there’s no clear instructions
https://youtube.com/shorts/AcxcuBEIqmk?feature=share
Here too
OH GOOD cause we were SO worried about the F@KN senator! GLAD for THAT update i can sleep well now SMH