Moscow's 16-hour traffic-jam.
At about 2 a.m., cars that had been creeping more swiftly along the MKAD's inner ring, in the opposite direction, began pulling over, their passengers spilling out. They were relatives of marooned drivers, bringing fresh provisions and warm clothes to loved ones located by cellular phone. "And gas, because some people were running out of gas," Bogdanov said.
In the dead of night, entrepreneurs sprang from houses near the superhighway with homemade sandwiches, hawking them to drivers and passengers. Bogdanov said some parents took their children to the other side of the road and "begged people to take them home."
