Snowpocalypse: Storm of the new century and what went wrong
If you were not already safe at home around 5pm December 18, odds are pretty good you were stuck in traffic somewhere– or stuck in a ditch.
The worst snowstorm to hit the record books in December— 20.5 inches officially, but routinely described as two feet—paralyzed the region in the days leading up to Christmas.
Route 53 past Monticello and U.S. 29 south would be closed for more than 24 hours. But also practically impassable were Route 20 south and U.S. 29 north, U.S. 250 west, and just about any major artery in the region.
Harder to understand is why, one week after the snow stopped falling and four days after the Virginia Department of Transportation said all secondary roads had been cleared, Ivy Depot Road resident Jack Dougherty had yet to see a plow on his road or nearby Morgantown Road.
"I'm like Mrs. Kravitz on Bewitched," says the public affairs consultant who works from home on Sunday, December 27. "I see the trains and the cars go by. Not one plow."
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Unwilling to battle the snow left unshoveled by artists, a pedestrian braves Market Street
White Christmas storm: #1 for December; #4 overall
Thomas Jefferson measured 36 inches of snow in 1772.
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