Virginia declared a state of emergency Wednesday night as the Washington DC metro area braced for more snow, days after the region was trounced by a monster blizzard.
The nation’s capital could expect to see 1 to 3 inches of snow on Friday morning, while 3 to 6 inches were forecast for the Harrisburg, Va. area two hours west,Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam declared a state of emergency ahead of the second round of winter weather as he defended the state’s response to Monday’s crisis on a 40 mile stretch of I-95 between Richmond and Washington.
Rainfall gave way to 11 inches of rapidly falling snow as temperatures plummeted, stifling efforts to salt roads. Icy conditions caused a truck to jackknife on the busy interstate Monday afternoon, causing other drivers to lose control. Lanes in both directions were blocked on the highway for up to 16 hours.
“We all need to be clear that this was an incredibly unusual event,” Northam said Wednesday, explaining that work crews were stymied by snow that was falling at the rate of two inches per hour.AP Photo/Susan Walsh “That was entirely too much for us to keep up with,” Marcie Parker, a Virginia Department of Transportation engineer, said. “Consequently, with the amount of traffic that we had on the interstate, the trucks and the cars couldn’t make it up and down the hills because we had too much snow and ice out there.”
Experts suggested that the officials were ill-equipped to deal with snowfall in the region, which typically sees only
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