{"id":1187242,"date":"2022-01-04T13:49:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T18:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1187242"},"modified":"2022-01-04T13:49:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T18:49:34","slug":"sen-tim-kaine-stranded-for-over-21-hours-on-i-95-amid-va-snowstorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-tim-kaine-stranded-for-over-21-hours-on-i-95-amid-va-snowstorm\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Tim Kaine Stranded for Over 21 Hours on I-95 amid VA Snowstorm"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsen-tim-kaine-stranded-for-over-21-hours-on-i-95-amid-va-snowstorm%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1187242&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1232563750-e1641316457687-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) on Tuesday has been stranded on I-95 in Virginia for over 21 hours due to a treacherous snowstorm that wreaked havoc on the region.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201cI started my normal 2 hour drive to DC at 1pm yesterday,\u201d Kaine <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/timkaine\/status\/1478357477158756352?s=20\">tweeted<\/a> around 8:30 AM. \u201c19 hours later, I\u2019m still not near the Capitol.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201cMy office is in touch with <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">@VaDOT&nbsp;<\/span>to see how we can help other Virginians in this situation. Please stay safe everyone,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Around 10 a.m., a Bloomberg reporter tweeted confirmation the senator has been <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NOgnanovich\/status\/1478377946675134465?s=20\">stranded<\/a> for over 21 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Kaine, a lawyer and former governor of Virginia, is a close ally with Hillary and Bill Clinton, serving as Hillary\u2019s vice-presidential running mate in 2016. Donald Trump defeated the Hillary\/Kaine ticket by 77 Electoral College votes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I started my normal 2 hour drive to DC at 1pm yesterday. 19 hours later, I\u2019m still not near the Capitol. My office is in touch with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VaDOT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@VaDOT<\/a> to see how we can help other Virginians in this situation. Please stay safe everyone. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Sz1b1hZJZ5\">pic.twitter.com\/Sz1b1hZJZ5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tim Kaine (@timkaine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/timkaine\/status\/1478357477158756352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Is Tim Kaine still stuck on 1-95? Hillary, do something!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Max Weiss (@maxthegirl) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maxthegirl\/status\/1478388956983144455?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Senate postpones another vote with Kaine still stuck on 95 and plenty of other senators still straggling in<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Burgess Everett (@burgessev) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/burgessev\/status\/1478383886019219466?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The <em>Washington Post<\/em> reported Tuesday morning that parts of I-95 were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/transportation\/2022\/01\/04\/i-95-shutdown-virginia\/\">shut down<\/a> overnight, \u201ccreating a standstill of cars and trucks that stretched 48 miles south of D.C. along one of the busiest highways in the country and leaving people stuck for nearly 20 hours in their vehicles without food and water\u201d:<\/p>\n<div class=\"remainder-content\">\n<section>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">Transportation officials said there were multiple crashes, some of them involving jackknifed tractor-trailers on the highway.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">The mess along I-95 is the result of a winter storm on Monday that walloped the D.C. region and parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern U.S., triggering power outages and resulting in the closure of government agencies, schools and&nbsp;coronavirus&nbsp;testing centers. Some areas in the D.C. region saw up to 12 inches of snowfall.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p>Gov. Ralph Northam (D) tweeted he is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovernorVA\/status\/1478354927026061317?s=20\">trying<\/a> to rescue the fellow Democrat by releasing the State and local emergency personnel \u201cto clear downed trees, assist disabled vehicles, and re-route drivers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201cWhile sunlight is expected to help <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">@VaDOT&nbsp;<\/span>clear the road, all Virginians should continue to avoid 1-95[sic],\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovernorVA\/status\/1478355092654993410?s=20\">added<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Wendell Huseb\u00f8 on Twitter&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendellHusebo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\"><em>@WendellHuseb\u00f8<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) on Tuesday has been stranded on I-95 in Virginia for over 21 hours due to a treacherous snowstorm that wreaked havoc on the region. \u201cI started &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1187242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}