Motorists sit stranded on I-95 near Fredericksburg, Virginia, on Tuesday morning. Snow “could create additional travel disruptions into the Friday morning commute,” the National Weather Service said Wednesday morning. Hazardous conditions lingered Wednesday, as some roads still were icy, VDOT said.Īnother winter storm could hit central and east-central Virginia late Thursday into Friday morning. Authorities closed that portion of the highway so workers could remove disabled vehicles and treat the road for snow and icing, the Virginia Department of Transportation said. Long lines of vehicles were snarled in portions of the roughly 50-mile stretch between exit 104 near Ruther Glen and exit 152 near Dumfries. “And the roads are incredibly slick, and my car is sliding around, and I don’t have food or drink in my car, so I was more focused on, ‘OK, how do I safely get out of this mess.’ ” “At some point, it switched from a miserable travel day into kind of a survival mode day for me,” the Virginia Democrat told CNN’s Alisyn Camerota on Tuesday by phone. Virginia senator recounts being stuck on I-95 for more than 20 hours after winter storm Virginia Department of Transportation via AP This image provided by the Virginia department of Transportation shows a closed section of Interstate 95 near Fredericksburg, Virginia, on January 3, 2022. Tim Kaine, who was driving toward Washington, said he was stuck on I-95 for more than 24 hours. He said one trucker was handing out bottles of water and one bread delivery truck opened its doors and people handed out loaves.ĭeFede finally got moving but was sent north, in the direction he had come from until, after two hours, he got off the interstate and found a place to stay. Live updates: Drivers trapped for hours on I-95 “This could have been a lot more serious.” But that’s just – that’s just dumb luck at this point,” he said. He said he had heard reports there were no deaths or injuries. He said he watched others who got out of their cars slip and slide on the ice and he stayed put, thinking there was no way emergency responders would get there if he fell and was hurt. Jim DeFede, a journalist who was driving home to Miami after a holiday visit with family in New York, told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Tuesday that once he stopped, he was stuck for 18 hours. Temperatures had dipped into the teens overnight. On Virginia’s I-95, motorists became stuck Monday into Tuesday partly because of disabled trucks blocking the way in snowy and icy conditions, state transportation officials said.ĭrivers described turning their engines on for a time to heat up, turning them off to conserve fuel, and sharing food and supplies with one another as crews tried to clear trucks blocking the way after they were unable to continue in ice and snow. Click on the I95 Interstate logo to get more detailed traffic informations in a city, and open live traffic cameras.A 50-mile stretch of Interstate 95 in eastern Virginia reopened Tuesday night after a severe winter storm left some motorists stranded on the highway for more than 24 hours.Īll disabled vehicles were removed from I-95 in that stretch in the Fredericksburg area between Richmond and Washington, D.C., by 8 p.m., transportation officials said.Ī Monday storm dumped more than a foot of snow in the area and not only stranded highway travelers overnight, but also snarled traffic on other roads and halted an Amtrak passenger train for more than 30 hours.Īt one point, the storm left more than 400,000 customers in the mid-Atlantic and Southeast without power. Zoom in and out of the map for more or less accuracy, and get all your information regarding congestions or accidents. This is the Interstate 95 Real Time traffic map.
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