Medway Messenger chief reporter Danny Boyle was one of hundreds of motorists stranded on the gridlocked A2 for 10 hours on Tuesday night. Here he relives his nightmare journey, which normally takes just 30 minutes.

My journey home had started so well.

When I left our office on the Medway City Estate, in Strood, at 4pm on Tuesday I wondered what all the fuss was about.

The roads were eerily quiet and I was chugging along at a steady speed - until I hit the A2 just before Gravesend.

It was at this point I joined hundreds of other motorists for a night of freezing hell.

What had earlier been a traffic-logged stretch of the London-bound carriageway turned into a car park.

As vehicles queued for as far as the eye could see, I moved perhaps six car-lengths in three hours.

With no information about what lay ahead, our fate was left to panicky speculation.

It was a dangerously cold waiting game that would have tested the patience of even Ghandi.

Like most other drivers, I was woefully unprepared. Somehow I managed to make a buttered scone, handful of mints and half-a-bottle of water last 10 hours.

People were running out of petrol as they left their engines on to keep heaters running and even staying awake at the wheel was a challenge.

And still the snow fell, with temperatures dipping below freezing and making the road a virtual ice rink.

And as stricken lorries took up much the hard-shoulder, emergency vehicles struggled to reach the scene of a series of accidents ahead.

I've never seen anything like it and at one point really thought I would be spending the night in the car.

When we finally began to move, we were faced with an assault course of jack-knifed lorries scattered across the carriageway and abandoned cars.

When the chaos cleared past the Bean interchange I had never been so happy to see an open road.

Avoiding the temptation to put my foot down, I got home just after 2am glad to be alive and collapsed in a heap, mentally and physically exhausted.

But, for hundreds of other people, their journeys were still a living nightmare.
All because of the snow. Don't you just love it?

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