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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
Finally got home - it took 5 1/2 hours to drive home [normal drive time = 20 minutes] - our snow started at noon - so all the schools closed, all the businesses/malls/etc. closed .... and thousands of frightened drivers hit the roads simultaneously - with snow/sleet/fog plus high winds. When it takes you 30 minutes or more to make a left turn onto a highway you begin to expect the worst. I honestly thought I was going to spend the next 2 days stranded on route 54 - along with thousands of other upset drivers - traffic was progressing at less than a crawl - at the stop lights we all jumped out and cracked the ice off of our windshield wipers - good Samaritans stopped to check abandoned cars to see if anyone needed rescuing ... my windshield cracked ... my rear window wiper broke off from the weight of the snow ... I was literally shaking with chest pain when I finally pulled into my neighborhood and slid up to my curb.
Early retirement looks real good tonight ... I'm too old for this level of stress ... after 2 Guinness I'm still tense ...
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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
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!
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so, in all seriousness, I'm going to ask you why you decided to go into work? I have stayed home many snow days simply because I knew it was going to be a clusterf*ck on the roads. I grew up driving in Colorado, and then as a soldier in Germany, AND I'm a skier. it's not me I'm worried about, it's all the other non-driving mo-fos out there. so, seriously I don't understand why people that are not basically one warning away from being fired (and even then I wonder) GET ON THE ROAD WHEN THEY ARE ADVISED NOT TO!!!!!
someone is playing fast and loose with your folks information down there. this from NPR; "The situation led officials to postpone tonight's planned basketball game between archrivals North Carolina and Duke a game that earlier today the state's governor had urged people no to try to attend"
the last time I gutted it out when advised that traffic was going to be bad due to weather was in Germany. it took me five and a half hours to get to work (normal 45 minutes). my husband was in the field for the next several weeks, my kids were home with the nanny. all of the local bases were closed in the next fifteen minutes after I got to work. I knew it was going to be bad for the foreseeable future so I stopped by the Stars and Stripes (book store) overspent my mad money and headed back home, that only took two hours (and I stayed off the autobahn). my personal rule ever since then is if the school buses aren't moving, I'm not moving. more often than not I go in a few hours later but I do NOT screw around on the roads when warned not to