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Virginia storm: Hundreds stranded all night in freezing temperatures on highway
Hundreds of motorists were stranded overnight along a 50-mile stretch of highway Virginia after lorries jack-knifed in a winter storm.
Rescue crews finished freeing the last of the travellers stranded for nearly 24 hours in freezing temperatures on a snowed-in highway, ending a crisis that had trapped thousands of people including U.S. Senator Tim Kaine.
Mr Kaine's routine commute from his Virginia home to Washington turned into a 27-hour ordeal when a blizzard made the road headed toward the nation's capital impassable, stranding him and other motorists without food and water in the freezing cold.
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