Even President Obama's motorcade couldn't handle an inch of D.C. snow
President Obama's motorcade was no exception to D.C.'s traffic gridlock Wednesday night after one inch of snow dusted the nation's capital. The president's motorcade, which was en route from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland back to the White House, reportedly "slipped and skidded" on the snow-covered roads and even hit the curbs multiple times, NBC reports. The typically 25-minute trip took Obama an hour and 14 minutes.
Still, the president's more than doubled commute time was a modest inconvenience in comparison to the traffic some D.C. drivers faced. More than 150 accidents were reported in Virginia Wednesday night and some commuters were still stuck on the road late as 3 a.m., with drivers inching along "less than a half-mile in four hours," The Washington Post reports. "Poolers counted between three and four fender benders/accidents in the first 20 minutes of the ride, which ended at the White House at approximately 8:40 p.m.," a White House pool reporter said.
The next blast of snow is expected to blanket the East Coast on Friday — and it could dump as much as 12 to 16 times Wednesday night's one-inch sprinkling.
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