Sorry for the Fox link. These poor souls have been stuck on 95 for 15+ hours and last night temperatures dipped into the teens. There really is no excuse for this, it looks like nothing was done to put down salt or move snow. We didn't get that much snow, even here in the mountains, so I would guess that's the cause. They're saying up to a foot of snow but the only headline I saw said 5-8 inches. I used to drive up and down 95 all winter from Northern Virginia to Richmond and the only time I saw anything like this was a February snowfall when the state claimed they had run out of road chemicals. And it wasn't this bad.
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They didn’t do shit in Maryland and we got 12 inches. Accidents EVERYWHERE. Highways shut down for hours. The incompetence is astounding.
I live in another part of Virginia and I noticed when I was in town day before yesterday, no salt or chemicals were put down on any of the roads in anticipation of the snow. I wasn't on the interstate but did travel on two major state roads. However, the store was wiped out of bread, milk, bottled water, and shoppers were stocking up on meat, snacks, etc. so if the shoppers knew about it, why didn't VDOT?