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More than 1,000 drivers were trapped in traffic when the Tokyo-Niigata Expressway was closed due to a sudden snowfall in Japan. Some drivers waited in their cars for 40 hours in line for more than 15 kilometers. Civil defense teams distributed food, blankets and gasoline to stranded drivers.
According to Japanese media, the snowfall started on Wednesday. The highway, which was closed after heavy rains, opened on Friday morning.
Japan Television NHK announced that more than 10,000 houses were without power in the region where the depth of snow reached 2 meters in three days.
‘BABY SNOW WATER’
Some drivers complained that they were not informed during the works to open the road to traffic.
Speaking to NHK, a driver told him about the snowfall: “The cars were suddenly buried in the snow. I was very scared. I ran out of food and water in the car. Now I fill the snow into a plastic melt and drink bottle. “.
Speaking to the Kyodo news agency, a driver said he was stuck in traffic on his way from Tokyo to his home in Niigata and said: “I was worried because I didn’t know what was going on and I never slept.”
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A driver named Yoshinobu Wakiya told Asahi Shimbun that he couldn’t get out of his car for 17 hours and said: “I have never seen so much snow in such a short time.”
Wakiya said he had to remove snow from the exhaust pipe overnight to prevent smoke from entering.
