Virginia senator recounts being stuck on I-95 for more than 20 hours after winter storm
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Sen. Tim Kaine on Tuesday recounted his hours-long journey on a Washington-area highway after a winter storm crippled the region and left hundreds, including the Virginia Democrat, stranded for hours on roads.
"At some point it switched from a miserable travel day into kind of a survival mode day for me. And, you know, the roads are incredibly slick, and my car is sliding around, and I don't have food or drink in my car, so I was more focused on, 'OK, how do I safely get out of this mess,' " Kaine told CNN's Alisyn Camerota by phone of his 27 hours stuck in traffic on Interstate 95.
"But I'm sure there's going to be a lot of questions: Was it weather forecasting? Was it inadequate pretreatment of roads? But I would just say that the snow is very heavy and very wet, and when that happens, as soon as the sun goes down, that slush turns to ice on a cold day, and that's what happened last night, and that's what brought everything to a standstill."
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