Motorists have been stranded on a major interstate in Virginia since last night
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#3Link for people that DO want megabytes of tracking Javascript and, you know, media:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/04/weather/winter-weather-tuesda...
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#4Truly a nightmare situation.
Re: Motorists have been stranded on a major interstate in Virginia since last night
#5I'm not surprised. I've taken this road before during the 2017 Eclipse. Its a path that connects major parts of the country together, but there are no alternative roads to take if this one road closes.
Other locations have "Backup" highways to lighten the load or otherwise take up the slack if the main road closes. Not so here.
I've been told that Virginia once had plans to build additional highways / alternative roads in cases of these emergencies, where the main road gets closed off for some reason. To do this, Virginia was planning to sell some coast-space to oil rigs and fund the new infrastructure.
Alas: the Deepwater Horizon spill of 2010 killed that funding plan, and with it, the plans for new highways.
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Instead, the state of Virginia focused on building additional lanes to the already existing highways. Which... doesn't help in these times of emergency, and still doesn't help in terms of day-to-day traffic either (most day-to-day traffic is bottlenecked at the offramps, where highways turn into traffic-light controlled, slower local roads).
You need additional highways (aka: additional offramps) to truly scale day-to-day traffic. And you also need "backup highways" to handle emergency situations, such as a jack-knifed semi-truck blocking all lanes due to some snow-accident.
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#6How do electric vechicles hold up in something like this?
Re: Motorists have been stranded on a major interstate in Virginia since last night
#7I'm not surprised. I've taken this road before during the 2017 Eclipse. Its a path that connects major parts of the country together, but there are no alternative roads to take if this one road closes. Other locations have "Backup" highways to lighten the load or otherwise take up the slack if the main road closes. Not so here. I've been told that Virginia once had plans to build additional highways / alternative roa…
> there are no alternative roads to take if this one road closes.
US Route 1 basically parallels I-95 in most of VA. I was once detoured on it after a military HAZMAT incident. It’s slow going, but it works.
Re: Motorists have been stranded on a major interstate in Virginia since last night
#8I'm not surprised. I've taken this road before during the 2017 Eclipse. Its a path that connects major parts of the country together, but there are no alternative roads to take if this one road closes. Other locations have "Backup" highways to lighten the load or otherwise take up the slack if the main road closes. Not so here. I've been told that Virginia once had plans to build additional highways / alternative roa…
> there are no alternative roads to take if this one road closes. US Route 1 basically parallels I-95 in most of VA. I was once detoured on it after a military HAZMAT incident. It’s slow going, but it works.
~2006?
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#9Hey doordash here is your marketing opportunity. Bring them food, water, handwarmers, etc on a bunch of snow mobiles. Some people get helped and you get a super bowl ad
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#10How do electric vechicles hold up in something like this?
Not well, the heater is a major drain. If you stop the heater, the batteries get cold and perform significantly worse.