DC looks set for a crushing.
Raleigh already in hell:
http://www.wral.com/traffic/ (click the bottom center cam that's by itself)
Look
at this picture.
This is how/why people end up abandoning cars on the highway. If you're in this, you're not getting home in your car tonight. Now excuse me while I run to the liquor store in advance of all the people who wait until after work.
Jebus, people are retrarded.
I dont get this. why dont they plow the roads?
When the snow comes quick and in the middle of the day while people are rushing to get home or to the store, it's hard to plow the roads before they get congested.
right. but everyone knew the snow was coming. i just dont understand. we get this amount of snow up north and there is no issue. yea it takes a while to get home but people arent stranded on a highway all night. this just seems crazy to me. Especially a week after it happened in atlanta when you know this storm is coming.
People have abandoned cars in fast moving storms but it is far less common. I would imagine there's not a lot of plows down there in the best of circumstances though.
I guess. i just saw this and this is just madness
http://www.buzzfeed.com/passantino/potentially-catastrophic-ice-storm-bears-down-on-the-south
I can only assume it caught people by surprise. Forecast says a few inches. In NC, that's not going to seem like a big deal to most. I'd guess people planned on traveling as normal, maybe cutting out of work a couple hours early. Next thing you know, a bunch of people are on the roads, and there just aren't as many plows as up North (and not much lead time to get them going).
People think they'll be fine on the roads, and maybe for 95% of them, they are right. But only takes a couple people to screw up on a highway, and everybody else is ####ed.