![]() To save gas, he said he was turning on the heat full blast for about 10 minutes, then turning the engine off and tried to sleep for 20-30 minutes at a time. Kaine said he's only eaten one orange since Sunday night, given to him by a Connecticut family who were on their way back from Florida. ET yesterday and was on his way to the Capitol for a voting rights meeting. "We have been just moving at a snail's pace, and there have been at least a couple of times where traffic on the interstate, black ice, when the snow was slushy, and remelted last night, it was very icy. Entire traffic was stopped for five or six hours at a time, and so, you know, we would get out and visit with folks in the cars nearby. I'm driving myself, but other cars are packed with kids or senior citizens, folks coming back from vacations. There was some nice camaraderie, even during a very miserable and extremely cold evening," Kaine said in a phone call to CNN. Northam said that the state has not called upon the National Guard for assistance because it takes time to deploy them and that their road crews, first responders and emergency management teams are well equipped to handle the situation.ĬNN previously reported that VDOT anticipates I-95 to be cleared of vehicles sometime today ahead of tomorrow’s rush hour. ![]() ![]() He said they will continue to do so not only on I-95 but also on the secondary roads. “Crews worked day and night, all night last night on this section of roadway and have continued to do so today,” Brich said. “Compounding this issue was that we were experiencing, as the storm progressed from west to east, rapid decreases in temperatures that were experienced, including on our pavements.” he said. VDOT Commissioner Stephen Brich said in the briefing that from mile marker 104 to approximately mile marker 153 of I-95 experienced anywhere between eight to 11 inches of snow during a very short window of time. “We were prepared for the storm that was predicted - a few inches of snow, but instead, Mother Nature sent more than a foot of snow to the Fredericksburg area,” Northam said. Northam said that the region was not prepared for the weather that swept through the region. “Road crews from VDOT and emergency responders have been working around the clock to tow disabled vehicles and get traffic moving again,” Northam said. Multiple tractor trailers, blocking the highway led to miles of backups with people stuck in their cars for many hours, according to Northam. All of those together created the perfect storm for what happened on I-95 last night," he said. Then we had slushy snow that fell a lot faster than our snowplows could move it, and then as the night fell, the temperatures dropped below freezing. “First we had rain, which meant that VDOT couldn't adequately pretreat the roads.
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