4 January 2022 Headline:
"Motorists are finally rescued from snowbound I-95 in Virginia after more than 27 hours trapped in their cars when Storm Frida dumped more than a foot of snow and closed 55 miles of the busy freeway"
It happens. I commute, weekly, from Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, to my home three hours north in Pennsylvania. I have, on more than one occasion, had to pull off the road because of unsafe driving conditions and spend the night in my car. I was comfortable because I was prepared. Are you?
Horror stories from I-95: People growing desperate without food, water, gas and phone batteries are going dead.
NBC correspondent Josh Lederman reported on Tuesday morning that he was stuck on the highway overnight with his dog.
He said that traffic came to a halt around 8pm near Stafford on Monday night during his trip back to DC and he hadn't moved much since then, nor had he seen any emergency vehicles.
'Once it got to be 9pm or 10pm, I realized we were going to be here all night long,' he told Hoda Kotb on a Today segment Tuesday morning, and added that he has been eating the few granola bars and pack of gum he luckily had in his car.
'We started to see a
lot of drivers turning their cars off to conserve gas, people running
out of food and water, kids and pets holed up for so many hours, people
letting their pets out of the car to try to walk them on the street,'
Lederman added, noting that he was worried there would be a medical
emergency if someone ran out of gas in the 26-degree weather.
Make a cold weather emergency kit and store it in the backseat of your car. NOT THE TRUNK!
If you have an emergency on the road there is no guarantee that you will be able to access the trunk.
This is a link to a previous post I wrote on car emergency kits: Click here or cut and paste the URL below into your browser.
https://eatbettercheaper.blogspot.com/2016/11/vehicle-winter-safety-kits.html
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