A traffic jam on I-95, Virginia, was causing delays for drivers for over 24 hours. One of those drivers was NBC News’ Josh Lederman, who called into MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”To describe the feeling of being stuck in a car for 10 hours.
“This has been a pretty insane and fairly dystopian experience. I was headed back to D.C. last night. GPS said I’d get back around 5:15. At about 7:15, with several delays, it was looking pretty bad on the roads and by 7:30 we were just at a standstill and have been at a standstill ever since,”The correspondent added that he could see. “thousands”His vantage point allows him to see cars.
Lederman, who works for NBC News as a national security reporter, suggested that many of the people he was in a situation with might not have been able to get food or water. He also said he hadn’t seen any emergency vehicles since before midnight Monday, but had seen people taking their dogs and kids out for walks.
“It’s been 26 degrees outside and nobody knows how long we’re going to be here or how we’re going to get out. So people — once it got into about five hours that people were stuck in their cars — started turning their cars off,”He stated.
The culprit, as he pointed out, was winter weather that hit the area around the nation’s capital. While he is not the only one who was affected by the storm, some people stuck in gridlock have more power than others. Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine said that he too was being held up.
“I started my normal 2 hour drive to DC at 1pm yesterday. 19 hours later, I’m still not near the Capitol. My office is in touch with @VaDOT to see how we can help other Virginians in this situation. Please stay safe everyone,”Kaine wrote AddA photo showing that he was surrounded with trucks.