Leftists blame Glenn Youngkin for I-95 crisis

| January 5, 2022

Ralph Northam is still at the helm, but that did not stop some from criticizing the incoming governor for the Interstate 95 emergency. Apparently, this was “not a good start” for Glenn Youngkin. The major problem with the criticism is that Glenn Younkin does not begin his term until January 15.

From Fox News:

Virginia’s Republican Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin doesn’t take office until Jan. 15 — yet some critics Tuesday tried to blame him, instead of the commonwealth’s outgoing Democratic incumbent, for a 179-mile-long traffic mess on Interstate 95.

Hundreds of travelers — including U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va. — were stranded in their vehicles overnight Monday into Tuesday in frigid conditions along the northern third of the highway in Virginia.

However, one of the stranded motorists — New Jersey parent Joseph Catalano — told Fox News he reached out to the actual sitting governor, Democrat Ralph Northam, while he and his family were trying to travel home from Disney World in Florida.

On Tuesday night’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson noted that many others impulsively blamed Youngkin instead of Northam for the crisis.

Carlson pointed to a tweet from anti-Trump Republican pundit Jonah Goldberg, saying that if he “were Glenn Youngkin, I’d be flooding the zone,” as images spread of drivers stuck on the frozen blacktop in places like Ladysmith, Spotsylvania and Carmel Church, while conditions on the parallel, older U.S. Highway 1 weren’t any better.

Other critics called it “not a good start” for Youngkin, while another critic lamented, “does Virginia’s new Governor Youngkin know people have been stranded on I-95 for 15 hours?”

But Carlson also spoke with Northern Virginia radio host Vince Coglianese, who observed that Youngkin — despite being wrongly blamed for the crisis — was receiving briefings and speaking with the media about the snow catastrophe.

Fox News has more at this link.

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Roh-Dog

This is also PDJT’s fault. He coordinated with white supreeemes to shutdown travel for POCs.

Snow is white. Connect the dots.

Anonymous

It’s always the counter-revolutonary’s fault (e.g., Trump, Youngkin, any Republcan, etc.) for Leftsts… just like Emmanuel Goldstein in 1984:

Harry

Snow is white and highways are racist. Let’s Go Brandon!

Odie

Do these people even listen to themselves?

Is there nobody to say, ya know Karen, that sounds kind of dumb?

And these are the up coming breed of idiots to replace the current breed of halfwits in power now.

Hack Stone

If John Kerry can vividly recall Richard Nixon sending him to Cambodia in December 1968, four weeks before Nixon was sworn in as President, then these individuals can lay the blame of this disaster on the guy who isn’t even Governor yet.

Graybeard

The Stupid is strong.
I wonder if pouring some Septic Shock solution into the tank would break that down?

Anonymous

Nitric acid.

Hack Stone

In the current Governor’s defense, all State Highway employees were busy removing Confederate statues.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/ralph-northam-blames-virginia-drivers-stranded-i-95

ninja

There are ALOT of Folks out there who never read/study the ENTIRE HISTORY of the War Between The States…and Label Bobby Lee and Other Confederate General Officers/Leadership as TRAITORS.

Slavery was just ONE issue, ONE for the War Between The States.

Guess What. The ninja Family had relatives that fought for BOTH Sides. We have studied our Country’s History for years.

Bobby Lee and Others WERE NOT TRAITORS.

I sure hope they don’t hold the same viewpoint for DJT, because then we just may have ANOTHER War Between The States BECAUSE OF SHEER IGNORANCE…

gabn/rtr/hbdt

rtr/hbtd on 10 January…KoB knows the Drill…😎😉

Wait a second…Those are College Football Teams From The SOUTH…Same Last Year…Same The Year Before…

The South IS Rising AGAIN! 🤣😂

KoB

A balmy 65 @ Firebase Magnolia…and I’m a good distance away from the ijits on 95 and 75. The Lord continues to Bless me and mine.

My heart is pulling for the Dawgs, but the gambler in me would put money on The Tide. Either way, SEC Rules! And GO Army BEAT Navy.

I’ll just let Ol’ Hank Jr. speak for us.

ninja

PREACH IT!

Another Nail Biter…Dawgs were pretty STRONG in their last game!!

LOVE that song, KoB!

Thank You for sharing…

The ninja family has finally convince, others, especially in the NY/CT Area to QUIT watching NFL/NBL…TOO POLITICAL AND DRAMA!,and watch COLLEGE Football!

It is WORKING…Got Folks now Hooked for next Monday…and for December (What…Too Soon? gabn)

rtr/hbtd

😉😎

Slow Joe

Ninja, wtf are you smoking?

The Civil War was a war in which the Democrats rebelled after refusing to acknowledge the election of the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln.

The Democrats own that one. They were/are the party of slavery. The Republican party was founded on an abolitionist platform.

ninja

Am smoking what Ted Cruz is smoking.

😉😎

We don’t want the Federal Goverment to dictate our lives..Hmmm…Does that EVER SOUND FAMILIAR…AS IN PRE-WAR BETWEEN THE STATES…

Do You?

Please study THE ENTIRE HISTORY of The War Between The States.

You are gonna see some similiarities in what happened PRE-War (1861-1865) and today (2022).

You are trying to compare 2 Parties from 2 different Eras…Seriously?

Ok…

So explain why Conservatives are from The South…Virginia had enough of those DemoRats…

“Ted Cruz Introduces Legislation To Allow States To Purchase Monoclonal Antibodies: Cruz’s Bill Comes After Biden Admin’s Decision To Control Distribution Of Monoclonal Antibody Therapeutics”

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cruz-monoclonal-antibodies-coronavirus-bill

“Ted Cruz has introduced legislation to remove federal barriers to states purchasing coronavirus treatments amid concerns that his state and others are approaching government-induced shortages.

“For months, many of us have been sounding the alarm over the Biden administration’s federal takeover of monoclonal antibody treatment distribution,” Cruz said in a Wednesday statement to Fox News Digital.”

“The bill I’ve introduced would empower states to determine their own needs, so those now facing critical shortages because of the Biden administration’s misguided policy can ensure their citizens are able to get the care they need. President Biden has finally admitted that states, not the federal government, are the answer in situations like this and my bill is a great first step in that direction.”

Mason

Show of hands on who expected Ralph “Coon Man” Northam, he who supports killing live newborns, to accept any personal responsibility?

Nobody? Not one?

Just as I thought. He’s a real class act, with a capital ASS.

Roh-Dog

Too much P of the SD for the gov to uncouch himself. He saw the much car-nage.

(h/t to our late 1SG) https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=73065

Anonymous

Personal responsibility is oppressive and “racist,” comrade!

Not interdependence and collaboration, right Lars?

ninja

As you all are aware, the ninja family does not like Ole Ralphie Boy…was determined to get Youngkin in office…Yes! HOWEVER, having living in and out and around the VA 1-95 area (worked at the Pentagon during the 1983 Blizzard while living in Lorton), I can tell you we had HEAVY, HEAVY Rain coming down all the night before the heavy snow with HIGH Winds. Heavy Rains as in Floods. Tornado Type Weather. Ninja Family, Friends, Coworkers,already made plans the NIGHT BEFORE NOT to go to work the next day..Alot of other Virginians made that same, wise decision. Employers were SMART to give THUMBS UP on that decision. Some of us always have to use VA I-95 to get to work. Common sense dictates everything. Schools were closed. Doctors Offices were closed. Drivers were told if they HAD to get on the road, they needed to be careful. If they HAD to be at work. After all night raining hard, the tempature SUDDENLY Dropped. Those wet, flooded roads turned into ice/black ice. Then, the snow starting coming down…fast and hard on top of all those wet roads. This is what happened…Just as I suspected. VADOT could NOT lay down Sand/Salt on the road. Well, they COULD, but why do it? The hard rain, floods, winds would have washed it away. Again, the roads iced up FAST. Snow starting coming down. They were not able to salt/sand VA I-95. And then a Truck jacknifed near Fredericksburg on VA I-95: https://www.foxnews.com/us/virginia-officials-defend-response-snowy-gridlock-i-95 Folks in VA were FAR WARNED AHEAD OF TIME to stay off the roads…Yes, there are occupations that one MUST go to work..but we were warned VIA TV, Radio, Internet, Phonescalls, Texts, to stay home unless necessary. We All knew…Well, we thought we all knew… We saw Tim Kaine complaining that he just HAD to drive from Richmond to DC the next day to VOTE..alot of us said “WHAT? REALLY? Oh, did that Man think he could walk on water that he or his staff or family did not bother to pay attention to the Weather Forecast and tell him to… Read more »

Roh-Dog

Pete Butt-a-chug said if we had nothing but electric, self-driving cars this woul’n’t have happened.
Speaking of, he’s gonna need 50% more income tax from all y’all to ‘fix’ this problem. That public transportation ain’t cheap! (and the Dim public sector unions need some phat stacks of ill-gotten moneies!)

I’m old enough to remember that NoVa (F-berg to DC) was a basically a two-lane road, sans the middle counter flow lanes. The whole ‘if you build it they will come’ adage has ruined that area, imho.

timactual

Amen. For almost 30 years I drove from north of DC to Florida on 95 at least once a year. It turned from an almost pleasant road trip to a nightmare, especially north of Richmond. One Christmas we were stopped dead due to ice for over an hour, and almost got rear-ended by a semi who started skidding and jackknifing on the ice and I couldn’t get out of the way because of the ice.

It’s only going to get worse, and it’s a non-partisan phenomenon.

Ex-PH2

Geezo Pete, Ninja, we have weather like this on a regular basis where I live. I spent 30 years living in Chicago, dealing with stupid idiots who thought they could drive to work when the plows hadn’t even been out and the trains weren’t running, and neither were the buses.

Stupidity about the weather seems to be a universal failure of the entire gene pool, especially in cities like Chicago, because instead of paying attention to weather reports and truly accurate forecasts, and going to the store ahead of the storm, people in Chicago (and surrounding suburbs) are dumber than a box of rocks about it and decide to make foraging trips during a blizzard. I could sit up in my 2nd floor apartment and watch them struggle to park their cars or even find their parking spaces, and wonder why they didn’t pay attention to the weather forecasts in the morning.

My favorite storm was the New Year’s Eve howling blizzard. Spent 20 minutes at the company party, then caught a bus homeward bound, and spent all New Year’s week on my living room couch, watching movies and stuffing myself with kielbasa, popcorn and hot cocoa or hot tea.

Good times.

ninja

Welcome Back, Ex-PH2..

We have missed you!

Am laughing so hard what you said, BECAUSE IT IS TRUE!

Lived in outskirts of Chicago and OTHERS TOLD ME THE SAME THING!

😄🤣😂😆😅

I can’t STOP laughing… Thank You!!

And we have seen your pictures…You have been there, done that!

Guess some folks think they are “Smarter Than The Average Bear!”

Claw

Good snow around my birthday time in January 1967 in northern Indiana.

Started snowing about 5 am one day and didn’t stop until about 10 am the next day.

They said we got 27 inches all total, but who could tell?

Ex- Is this the snow you’re thinking of? Said to be a record setter that hasn’t been broken yet.

The drifts were as tall as the telephone poles.

Good Times !!!

ninja

Happy Birthday, Claw…Whatever The Date in January..

There are ALOT of January Babies, to include some ninja family members and friends…

Guess April was a busy time ..

😎😉

The Stranger

There’s a story that my uncle told me about a guy who rode his HORSE into work at Inland Steel since he couldn’t drive to the plant in the aftermath of that storm.

A Proud Infidel®™

Liberals are living proof that the gene pool is in serious need of a good dose of chlorine.

Odie

Congrats to the ninja family for bringing new blood to power.

Ol Ralphie boy is probably looking for those that don’t like him. Shouldn’t be too hard to find I wouldn’t think.

rgr769

I’m surprised the cuttlefish isn’t shit-posting here, shrieking that this is all Orange Man Bad’s fault somehow.

There is nothing quite like fixing blame on someone who had nothing to do with the problem at hand when that person had neither the authority nor the power to do anything about a weather event. Never underestimate the disordered thinking of a zealot.

USMC Steve

He would have assistance in the form of Marinedad 61 and 5JC no doubt.

Commissar Pooper's Narcissism

I am still recovering from New Year’s Eve. I did not make it to midnight as I fell asleep drunk. I remember drinking, talking to no end, eating a hooker’s ass, pissing on the sidewalk, pooping in someone’s yard, saying fahrvergnugen real loud while standing on the bar while naked, then waking up the next day with troll words written on my face with a sharpie.

Odie

Mention gateway pundit as a source for a story, and badda Bing, there he is.

rgr769

He has caused me to add it as a favorite and read it daily.

Roh-Dog

TGP has more useful data than CommieNN, MSLSD, PBS, Drudge, etc combined.
It’s a low bar but they clear it with room to spare.

MarineDad61

Troubles in Virginia on more than I-95.
No word on blames…. for a fallen tree.

[Amtrak train stranded in Virginia for nearly 40 hours without food due to storm]
https://nypost.com/2022/01/04/virginia-amtrak-train-stranded-for-nearly-40-hours-due-to-storm/

ninja

The last time we took an AMTRACK (AND IT IS THE LAST TIME), I thought we were gonna be killed.

It was an Overnight trip. The train was running late.

The train driver was SPEEDING (documented) to make time.

2 Days later, an AMTREK DID DERAIL, KILLING FOLKS.

Wait….Didn’t Ole Plugs Biden Keep Endorsing AMTREK?

(“JOEY Boy!”)

🤔

ninja

Also, the ninja family has sat on Airplanes on Tarmacs for 10 Hours in HEAT in other countries.

We were NOT allowed to Deplane because of customs, security…

One should try it.

No air running.120 degrees outside…

MarineDad61

ninja,
I know a guy who pilots an Amtrak train in Pennsylvania.
It’s the hilliest twistiest track for passenger trains in the USA.
Great for tourism and scenery, but in reality,
from Philly (or Harrisburg) to Pittsburgh,
it’s quicker and cheaper to drive,
even with the ever increasing Turnpike tolls.

BTW, pays good, and he likes the hours and hotel stays now
much better than his freight locomotive years.

ninja

The Staff on both rides from DC to Birmingham LOVED their jobs, MarineDad61!!

Thank You for sharing!!

MarineDad61

ninja,
You bet.
I promised him I’d hop his train
on a round trip from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh
(diesel electric, not catenary), but 3 problems.
– No rides in the locomotive.
– No smoking.
– No getting on the train without masks on.
When I can snag 2 of the 3 above, I’m on it.

Hondo

After seeing the stupidity noted above (e.g., those blaming someone who doesn’t take charge for 10 days for an incident occurring during their predecessor’s administration), the following quote comes to mind:

God must love fools, for He made so many of them.

A Proud Infidel®™

Everything is the fault of the GOP according to Big Brother of the DNC.

Poetrooper

“…people in Chicago (and surrounding suburbs) are dumber than a box of rocks about it and decide to make foraging trips during a blizzard.”

So THAT’S what Jussie Smollett was doing…😝

ninja

Poe:

🤣😂😄😃😎😆👏👏👏

Subway Sandwiches…

Dave Chapelle NAILED IT.

What ever happened to Smolett sentencing?

rgr769

I loved that comment by some smart ass: “If the sammich was not bit you cannot acquit,“ as closing argument from the prosecutor.

ninja

Will say it again:

Plugs Biden will get on TV and blame the UNVAX…🤣😂😆😅

Tim Kaine…DEMOCRAT..Was HRC VP Nominee…Lives in Richmond Area…JUST HAD TO DRIVE TO DC TO VOTE..

WHAT AN IDIOT!!

All lack COMMON SENSE!

ninja

The ninja Family LIVED thru that 1983 Blizzard..

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/the-megalopolitan-blizzard-of-february-10-12-1983/2013/02/12/be05ae32-73a9-11e2-aa12-e6cf1d31106b_blog.html

We lived in Lorton…NO WAY WERE WE GONNA BE STUPID TO DRIVE TO DC TO WORK, so we put in for Leave (DA FORM 31), which was approved.

We watched on TV those poor GS Workers being ORDERED to come to work, then were told they did not have to AFTER the Interstate Messup.

1983 Folks..Again, some have OCCUPATIONS or are Mission Essential that THEY HAD to be on the Road…

We just have STUPID, LACK OF COMMEN SENSE Folks living amongst us.

Or don’t believe in the Weather Man, but will fall for Fauci ROE (“I just had to get my 89 year old Mother Her COVID BOOSTER…Or She Will Die Because Of The UNVAX, So I Will Risk Our Lives To Drive On Snowy/Icy Roads To Get Her Booster!”)…That, Folks, was reported in the News…

You Can’t Make This Stuff Up!

President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight

ninja,
It shows your common sense when you can spell “COMMON” properly (vice “COMMEN”).
(check your legs. see which one is longer. that’s the one I just pulled)

LOVE IT!

PC is down, so been using smartphone and quit proofreading spelling, grammer, typo errors…

Probably gonna some in this comment.

Thank You!

😎😉👍👍

ninja

Am back from the 5 and 10 cent store with a new bottle of white out and an eraser!!

And a mask for my smartphone cuz it has a virus!!

Store ran out of smartphone self test kit, so they said it needed a mask and to make an appointment for Vaxing the phone…

And for some medication to ensure me legs don’t get pulled anymore!
😎😉

MarineDad61

ninja,
Amtrak coincidence…
Lorton, VA is the AUTOTRAIN station. (Lorton to Sanford, FL).
Still on my bucket list. Sleep on the train,
and drive my own car out from the Florida station.
https://www.amtrak.com/auto-train-experience

ninja

MarineDad61:

Yep.

It was that way in the 80s when we lived in Lorton.

We wanted to do the SAME Thing…it was the $$$ that stopped us.

Years later, we finally took a Round Trip, 12 Hour Sleeper from DC to Birmingham for the experience. As am Army Brat, I remember having to travel by train CONUS in the 50s and 60s to get to our next Duty Station.

Did it in Germany in the 60s.

Just wished that Conductor did not speed coming back. WE WERE SCARED..And Yes, he got caught…ALOT of Passengers were afraid.

Hope you DO get to do that trip to Florida…it was GREAT going down (we did not take our cars)…in the Sleeper…Meals were good, the Staff was great and the scenario was gorgeois!

👏👏👍👍👌👌

P.S. Lorton used to house the Prison. Folks asked us :”You both wanna live near a Prison? ” And we said “Yep!” After all, if you were escaping, would you want to hang out in the same town as your Prison? 😂🤣

MarineDad61

ninja,
Way cool. And thanks.
BTW, did admin(s) check their email
for a big update…. on a big phony?

Only Army Mom

When the facts are recognized, like who is the actual governor and all the realities Ninja pointed out, and after getting excoriated for blaming (accurately, I agree) the stupid people who put themselves in that foreseeable, predicted position the narrative will shift. Wanna guess where?

Cue little Greta in 3…2…

ninja

OAM NAILED IT!

👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👌👌👌

And AOC said our World will end in 12 years…

Thank You!

Sapper3307

Roh-Dog

So many people that’d never survive New England or if the corners were unrounded.

Bit of advice: NEVER try to break your fall with arms outstretched on ice. You’re better off throwing your shoulder underneath you and tucking chin into the opposite shoulder.

Ive had 40+ years of expert practice.

Anonymous

Concur. Just fall down and pick it up (literally) from there.

ninja

Other Dumb Rocks I Have Seen:

*An Individual Driving Up To A Gas Pump, Start Pumping Gas and LIGHTING AND SMOKING A CIGARETTE AT THE SAME TIME!!*

*An Individual Looking Into a Barrel Of A Gun/Rifle AFTER A MISFIRE!*

*An Individual Contuniuously Spraying Lighter Fluid All Over A Grill AFTER A Small Spark Starts!*

*An Individual Standing Outside To See If A Tornado Will Pick Them Up When The Tornado Is Coming!*

*An Individual Posing As a KKK In His Medical College Yearbook And Said He Moonwalked As Michael Jackson, But Failed To Notice The Blackface In The Yearbook Wears Glasses…and The Individual Does Not Wear Glasses…What A Doofus!!*

*Any Individual Who Voted For Plugs Biden and Has The Hots For AOC!!*

*An Individual Sticking Their Hand Down a Garbage Disposal…While It Is Still On..To Unstick It!*

Hatchet

‘and Has The Hots For AOC’?!

*shudder*

DUDE!! You a such a BUZZ-KILL!!!

Fer Gawd’s sake, Man!! Give us a spew-warning next time, will ya?

Fook’n ‘ell…

Anonymous

Sticking your finger in a light socket?

Taking a knife to a gunfight?

Putting a screen door on a submarine?

ninja

From A Fox News Article:

REALLY?

Perhaps he should say “optimistically”, “Well, my 8 and 10 year daughters and I will sleep near the woods where we told their are Grizzalies, so I can tell my Grandkids stories…”

OR “We are planning to swim in Shark Infested Waters, So I Have Stories To Tell My Grandkids..”:

“Marvin Romero, who was driving home from a family vacation in South Florida with his daughters, ages 10 and 8, took a rather optimistic view of the situation, despite spending 20 hours and a long, anxious night in the car.

“To me, I see it as a once-in-a-lifetime experience. How many people can actually say that they stepped on I-95, or they slept on I-95?” he said. “It’s hopefully a story that I can tell my grandkids one day.”

geetwillickers

So here’s the thing – NOBODY DIED… so yeah. Some folks got to sleep in their cars. And shivered a bit. Roger all above – stupid, should have stayed home. Yeppers. But NOBODY DIED. Why is this a crisis in the first place? Geez louise… Talk about first world problems…

ninja

Hmmmm..

Sounds as if it is a COVID story in the White House or the Press cause nothing else is going on…

Better to read this than to see Fauci’s face or hear that accent..

Or another boring day of looking at Biden’s eyes moving back and forth reading a telepromoter, being theatrical, while saying in a whisper “Take the Vax…Cuz We Are Gonna Die”

Or watching Nancy’s hand actions while talking…or The Harris Kackle…

Am telling you now…There are a bunch of Aliens who planted a virus on Planet Earth and are conducting an experiment on the Human Race to see how much longer or faster we can kill each other off…I think they are getting bored…

After All, When Was The Last Time You Saw Godzilla?

Sincerely,

Former Scrict Writer and Acting Director For The Joe Biden Sheet Show

😎😉

Odie

About the only people who slept comfortably were the otr drivers with sleeper cabs.

Day cabs and cars not so much.

geetwillickers

Didn’t say comfy or cozy… or even happy. Just said alive. Didn’t even see any reports of injuries… I have spent some pretty miserable nights wishing I had made some better choices. And woke up with toes that felt more like play-doh than flesh. Guess what? I wasn’t screaming about whose fault it was, I was thinking I should have taken my boots off before crawling into the fart sack like SSG Poynter told me back in basic.

I guess I agree with ninja and clan…. this is a non-story meant to keep us from discussing something, like how the sooper skeery OMICRON is just a bad case of the sniffles. Or something. Anyway… I gotta go NOT drive somewhere in a blizzard. Y’all have a great evening!

ninja

Hey, Folks!

Here is a time for redemption!

“Mid-South snowmaker to become next East Coast snowstorm, bring more snow to I-95 corridor Thursday into Friday
The snow could snarl travel in portions of the mid-Atlantic and Northeast”:

https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/mid-south-snowmaker-to-become-next-east-coast-snowstorm-bring-more-snow-to-i-95-corridor-thursday-into-friday

Didn’t say we try to warn you!!

Go Get Your Milk and Bread and Booster Now!!!

😎😉

ninja

This is what happens when you take down the Confederate Flag!!

We tried to tell you!

You All Don’t Remember Those Floods?

“Experts stunned by South Carolina’s frequent earthquakes:One 2.6 magnitude earthquake hit by Elgin”

https://www.foxnews.com/us/experts-south-carolinas-earthquakes

Am telling you…Those Aliens Are Coming Up With Some New Game Plans!!

How is that Dude, Rocketman, Doing These Days?

Isnt CNN doing some Documentary for tomorrow, 6 January?

😉😎

Hatchet

It’s snowing heavily throughout? Fuckit. Blame Canada. My uncle in SD does – he blames Canada for each and every snowflake he has to shovel, each and every year…

Jeff LPH 3, 63-66

So the demoRats are giving the public a snow job that Gov Glenn should have done something to clear the roads when the man wasn’t the Gov. yet. They know this but have to stir the shit as usual. Global warming at it’s best.

fm2176

I live in Stafford about 1/2 mile from I-95 as the crow flies, and obviously have heard about this. Youngkin is as much to blame for this as I am. Unprepared and unthinking travellers, overwhelmed local authorities, and a lack of proactive state assistance caused this. VDOT seems to have been caught in a bad situation, but they didn’t cause the main north/south East Coast interstate to become a parking lot for over half a day.

I went to Lowe’s to pick up more firewood yesterday, and road conditions were okay. Unplowed roads out of the neighborhood, but sun and vehicles had created a safe path for anyone in a 4WD once I got to the state highway and shopping center. As I approached the intersection to the shopping center, the same road that leads to I-95 in 1/8 of a mile or so, I found myself sitting for about 15 minutes. The I-95 closure caused so much chaos that the eastbound traffic kept blocking the intersection, allowing a car or two at most through at a time.

My son works at a gas station right on the corner of the state highway and the interstate. He came home the past two days talking about all of the parking spaces being occupied by stranded motorists, and shared pictures of the empty store shelves after panicked travellers stocked up on whatever they could get.

Cameron

I used to live in Stafford myself (went to elementary, middle, and high school in Stafford). I live in Triangle now. Never would have thought that I would see someone from Stafford on this blog, guess it truly is a small world after all.

Devtun

Guv elect? That’s close enough. Maybe a preemptive impeachment of Youngkin?