RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A winter storm that started as rain — meaning roads couldn t be pretreated — followed by an unusually heavy snowfall and plunging temperatures resulted in the
RICHMOND, Va. A winter storm that started as rain meaning roads couldn t be pretreated followed by an unusually heavy snowfall and plunging temperatures resulted in the stranding of hundreds of motorists along a stretch of one of the nation s biggest interstate highways, Virginia officials said, as they defended their response to the gridlock.
RICHMOND, Va. There was no food, water or sleep for Susan Phalen as she spent a frigid night in her car stopped on Interstate 95 in Virginia. Meera Rao and her husband were only 100 feet past an exit but were unable to move for 16 hours.
A winter storm that started as rain \u2014 meaning roads couldn t be pretreated \u2014 followed by an unusually heavy snowfall and plunging temperatures resulted in the stranding of hundreds of motorists along a stretch of one of the nation s biggest interstate highways, Virginia officials said, as they defended their response to the gridlock.