(Courtesy Prince George's County Fire Department)(Courtesy Prince George's County Fire Department )WASHINGTON - After torrents of rain spread throughout the region Tuesday evening, flooding conditions have closed multiple roads in the D.C. On Ritchie-Marlboro Road under the Capital Beltway, firefighters helped four people get out of their vehicle, which had stalled Tuesday in high water. Business & Finance Click to expand menu.Either you get winter in November or you get winter in March, and this year it’s November. And we just ask people for a little bit of patience and understanding. “They’re experienced this is what they do. Still, crews are “plugging along,” Kamilakis said. “We always treat better when vehicles are off the road, but this is a region people don’t stay home,” she said. Kamilakis told WTOP road crews were slowed Thursday morning because of the traffic volume. Road crews in some areas of Virginia were also hampered Thursday morning because of the heavy volume of traffic out on the roads. Arlington Department of Environmental Services November 15, 2018Īrlington County is responsible for maintaining its own roads. Brine would already have washed away without preventing potential ice to come. “The issue is, you can treat as much as you can with the brine mixture and then respond throughout the storm with salt, but that will only do so much based on the amount of precipitation that’s falling.”Īt least one local Virginia county said it didn’t pre-treat its roads - saying it would have been ineffective.įWIW: This morning’s rain/sleet/slop illustrates why Arlington roads were not pre-treated overnight. But there’s only so much that can accomplish, he said. John Schofield, deputy director of communications with the Maryland State Highway Administration, told WTOP crews worked to pre-treat roads in the hours before the sleet and snow began. “Any pre-treatment that occurred would have been outdone by the burst of heavy snow and sleet.” The briefly heavy snowfall rates overcame road temperatures that were slightly above freezing,” said WTOP’s Dave Dildine, who was manning WTOP’s Traffic Center during Thursday’s commute. “The quick burst of heavy snow during the morning rush hour, when traffic was at its heaviest, was an unfortunate combination of events. The timing of the snowfall also wreaked havoc - with heavy snowfall starting to fall after drivers had already taken to the roads. “To be honest, I think a lot of (drivers) didn’t realize that the snow was going to materialize … so I think it’s really a little bit of a shock value,” Ellen Kamilakis, spokeswoman with VDOT, told WTOP in an interview Thursday morning. Rena #CountEveryVote RF November 15, 2018ĭC really missed the mark on this snow day. No sign of any plows, slippery and dangerous. And secondary roads and neighborhood streets quickly became snow-covered, and many drivers took to social media to vent their frustration about what appeared to be untreated out here in North Reston, roads are completely untreated. WTOP’s Traffic Center reported a number of spinouts across area roads, including on icy, snow-covered ramps in interchanges. However, snow began piling up on shoulders and in between lanes. Officials with both the Virginia Department of Transportation and the Maryland State Highway Administration stressed that crews had been out pre-treating roads for hours before the snow fell. area who took to the roads Thursday morning encountered icy, slushy conditions as snow fell more furiously than many expected - right during the heart of the morning commute.
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