Ice and snow stranded scores of drivers on Interstate 95 in Virginia into Tuesday morning after a winter storm pounded the mid-Atlantic and dumped more than a foot of snow in some places.
The storm brought havoc to roadways, left more than 280,000 without power in Virginia and caused at least five deaths across three states.
On a roughly 50-mile stretch of I-95 near Fredericksburg, drivers were stuck in their cars overnight with ice blanketing the freeway and cars at a standstill. The Virginia Department of Transportation tweeted after 5 a.m. Tuesday that the stretch of the interstate remained closed.
Late Monday, the agency shared a photo of the traffic jam with the caption, "We wish we had a timetable, ETA or an educated guess on when travel will resume on I-95. It's at a standstill in our area with multiple incidents. Its frustrating & scary."
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