On Monday morning, John Hildenbrand, of Syracuse, and his coworker Safwan Aziz, of Binghamton, started their drive from Central New York to South Carolina.

At the same time, over 800 miles away, Jimmy Watcher and his partner Geoffrey Ameele and their new French bulldog set out to make the long drive from Georgia to their home in Fayetteville.

The four men expected normal drives on Interstate 95 and other roads, one vehicle headed south and the other headed north. None of the men were ready for what they encountered a few hours into the trips.

They — like hundreds of other motorists — were stuck on a 50-mile stretch of Interstate 95 in eastern Virginia after a severe winter storm hit the area. Many people were stranded overnight Monday into Tuesday, some for more than 25 hours on the snow and ice-covered highway.

As residents of Upstate New York, none of the men had anticipated that the ice and foot of snow that fell in Virginia would significantly affect their travel.

When they…



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