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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As somebody who lives in an area that gets well over 200" of snow each winter, I just don't understand this. Do they not have snowplows? Or is just incompetence?
It's probably a combination of both. I'm leaning more towards the latter. There is a lack of snow plows or drivers nationwide but that's a tanget discussion. More importantly It's also people not knowing how to drive in inclement weather or just complacent.
I also live in a snowy area in the winter; tons of plows!. After a large snow fall it still takes time to clear it all. Meanwhile we are still expected to get to work and school. 1' of snow or 1/4" of ice where I live doesn't shut anything down whether the plows have it cleared or not.