It’s a ‘Way Back Wednesday’
Instead they spent a harrowing 18 hours sitting on I-95 in Northern VA during an ice storm! Traffic along a 50-mile stretch of the Interstate came to a standstill.
Their biggest concern: they didn’t get to Pittsburgh to see Ben win that game!
But they never expected what happened next…
Taylor and Bailey left Oak Island, NC at 7:30am for Heinz Field to see Big Ben & the Steelers play the Browns that evening…but Mother Nature had other plans. They got as far as I-95 in Northern Virginia when ice and snow on the interstate stopped them in their tracks – literally.
From Nicole Ford, WPXI-TV:
From snowflakes to stranded — for 16 hours on Monday, Taylor Mooney and Bailey Ferguson sat just 26 miles north of Richmond on I-95.
“Terrible just terrible. There was three inches of just solid ice covering the entire road. So anytime we attempted to get out of the vehicle you were just sliding everywhere,” Ferguson said.
The destination for the two was Pittsburgh just in time for the Steelers’ kickoff. This duo left Oak Island, North Carolina, by car after two canceled flights determined to be in their seats for Big Ben’s last home game. It was around 1 p.m. when the trip came to a halt.
“We tried everything. We said okay maybe we will make it after the first quarter, maybe we will make it for halftime, maybe we will make it for the last two minutes of the game that’s what kept us going for so many hours. Just maybe we will get to pull into the parking lot of people celebrating in the parking lot as they are leaving,” Ferguson said.
It wasn’t until about 5 a.m. Tuesday that things got moving and that they finally got off the interstate.

From Taylor’s Facebook page on January 4th:
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