Hundreds of drivers stranded in Virginia after pummeled by snowstorm

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57% : But DeFede said that as of this morning, the road was still covered in ice.
55% : The roads were covered with a sheet of ice as temperatures dipped into the teens and twenties overnight
51% : Since then, the 50-mile stretch of highway south of DC was blanketed in nearly a foot of snow and ice as temperatures dipped to the teens overnight.
45% : He said that effort was complicated by disabled vehicles, freezing temperatures and ice, according to AP.
43% : Drivers remained stranded on the I-95 for 20 hours and countingDozens of others spoke out, saying they were hungry and cold without the proper supplies while expressing their frustrations that the National Guard was not being deployed to help themTraffic reached a standstill Monday afternoon following a tractor-trailer collision on the US East Coast's main north-south highway - and it became impossible to move as nearly a foot of snow and ice accumulated with temperatures dipping into the teens and twenties.
37% : Northam had said that he opted not to request National Guard help because the issue facing state crews was not a lack of manpower but the difficulty of getting workers and equipment through the snow and ice to where they needed to be.

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