Fewer than 20 abandoned vehicles remained on Interstate 95 in eastern Virginia Tuesday evening after a severe winter storm left many motorists stranded for hours overnight Monday.
"There are no people stranded," the Virginia Department of Transportation office in Fredericksburg tweeted at 5:15 p.m. ET.After the remaining cars and trucks are towed away, the department's plow trains will remove snow and ice from the travel lanes.For some drivers, the ordeal began Monday and lasted more than a dozen hours.
— Tim Kaine January 4, 2022 Motorists expressed frustration on social media as they sat in vehicles on I-95, unable to move and worried about below-freezing overnight and morning temperatures after a storm that dropped more than a foot of snow in the Fredericksburg area and left more than 400,000 customers in the mid-Atlantic and Southeast without power.
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