I-95 Disaster: KKK Northam’s Parting Gift to Virginia

BUCK: We’ve got Doug in Maryland who has got some thoughts on that I-95 traffic jam from hell. What’s up, Doug?

CALLER: How you guys doing? First-time caller.

BUCK: First time talking to you, sir. Thanks for giving us your time.

CALLER: (chuckling) Hey, yeah. What’s going on on I-95 where you have thousands of people stranded, you have people out of gas, you don’t have it resources available as far as being able to get the road cleared off — the interstate cleared off — in a timely fashion and you don’t have the funds available because, when you have a Democrat in charge, whether like you guys said earlier whether it be federally or statewide, this is what you get. You get total ineptness. You don’t have the funds available ’cause they’re wasted on other things, and now you have a disaster takes place for the last 24 hours and through this entire state of Virginia. Democrats are in charge!

BUCK: Hold on a second. Hold on a second, Doug. Doug, it sounds like you’re telling me Governor Ralph Northam of “I don’t know if I was in the Klan costume or the blackface” story is not doing a good job in Virginia. Is that what you’re telling us?

CALLER: Yeah. It’s unfortunate that we can’t have like the new governor come in already. It’s evident that he wasn’t respected for this emergency. What do you guys think about this?

CLAY: Well, I think in general — this is just me, okay? — southern people are incompetent when it comes to snow, in my experience, Democrats, Republicans, independents. I don’t know the specifics of how I-95 got shut down like it did for so many people. It’s obviously an unmitigated disaster that it could occur. I don’t know the specifics of how it occurred, if that make sense.

I know that the state of Virginia — I would guarantee — does not have a massive cache of snowplows just like my home state of Tennessee doesn’t have massive amounts of snowplows. So people from north can make fun of us, but when it snows we don’t have the ability to get roads cleared. And also Virginia, much like Tennessee, people who live in Virginia and Tennessee and Kentucky and places like this are gonna understand — Buck, you New Yorkers don’t really understand this.

We are always right on the line of, is it gonna be the worst possible weather, which is like 35 in a cold rain or is it gonna be 31 and snow or is it gonna be 32 or 33? And we get the dreaded wintry mix where we get like sleet, ice, snow, it all mixes in together. So we are oftentimes a disaster because we aren’t prepared for cold weather. That’s why I always say, “Cold weather and snow and ice hit in the South, stay in your house. Don’t go out.”

BUCK: All of our listeners in WFLA Tampa and WIOD Miami —

CLAY: That’s why we moved south.

BUCK: — say it’s an interesting Nashville situation there. Sorry about that.

CLAY: Well, I just see people driving through. The ice is a mess, and so I don’t know exactly what happened in Virginia. But my thing is — and this is why I always say it to Southerners. I had to tell my wife who came down from Michigan, “It’s different. If I’m in Michigan and they get a foot of snow, the roads are gonna be fine. People are gonna be out moving around in it.” If we get four inches of snow here, the city is shutting down. Don’t fight it.