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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
I'm glad to hear you made it. I thought about you tonight when the local news reporters were saying that many in North Carolina were stranded on the roads. Actually, what was said is that "people ignored warnings by police to stay off the roads" and were stranded as a result. The way they said it got under my skin. What of all those people who, in today's economy, don't dare miss a day of work without a very good excuse who were stranded because their bosses didn't let them off early so they could get home safely? I'm sure there were very few people on the roads this afternoon by choice.
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Do you know what really fubared the traffic tonight? There was a basketball game scheduled for tonight - Duke playing at UNC - which the officials refused to cancel [it was going to be televised] - they were going to fill the arena with students from the dorms - let them in for free to be the TV audience ... they only cancelled it AFTER I got home - b/c the Duke bus couldn't get to UNC in time for the game! So thousands of fans were pouring into UNC - on route 54 - and leaving the same day on route 54 - all because of a frigging basketball game!
Sure! Blame the drivers trying to come home from work!