UPDATE JANUARY 4, 2022:
RUTHER GLEN, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam says help is on the way to hundreds of motorists who spent a chilly night snowed in along on Interstate 95 after a crash involving six tractor-trailers in Virginia. Monday’s (Jan. 3, 2022) wreck shut down the U.S. East Coast’s main north-south highway for about 50 miles and stranded drivers in both directions for more than 15 hours. The Virginia Department of Transportation said around daybreak Tuesday that its crews would start taking people off the roadway wherever they could be reached. Meanwhile people are posting increasingly desperate messages on social media, saying they’re running out of food, fuel and water in temperatures below freezing.
JANUARY 3, 2022:
UNDATED (AP)- A winter storm moving into the mid-Atlantic combined with the pandemic to continue frustrating air travelers whose return flights home from the holidays were canceled or delayed in the first few days of the new year. More than 1,900 U.S. flights and more than 3,300 worldwide were grounded as of early Monday (Jan. 3, 2022), according to tracking service FlightAware. That follows Sunday’s cancellations of more than 2,700 U.S. flights, and more than 4,400 worldwide. And on Saturday there were more than 2,700 U.S. flights cancelled and more than 4,700 worldwide. The storm is forecast to bring as much as 10 inches (25 centimeters) of snow for the District of Columbia, northern Virginia and central Maryland through Monday afternoon.
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