Other stranded drivers in Virginia were forced to turn off their cars to conserve gasoline, even as temperatures fell well below freezing overnight.
Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine is among the hundreds of drivers who have been trapped for more than a day in a brutal traffic jam caused by heavy snows and iced-over roads outside Washington.
"I started my normal 2 hour drive to DC at 1pm yesterday," Kaine tweeted at 8:27 a.m. ET. "19 hours later, I'm still not near the Capitol." "This has been a miserable experience, but at some point I kind of made the switch from a miserable travel experience into kind of a survival project," Kaine said in a phone interview Tuesday morning with Washington radio station WTOP.
Conditions are hazardous on other Virginia roads, as well, with VDOT warning Louisa County overnight of "several jack-knifed tractor-trailers" on U.S. Route 522. "Nobody knows how long we're going to be here or hw we're going to get out," he reported from his car.
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