Traffic and Transit Update: 12-Hour Commute

[wayneflorida 0]

Anyone here have their personal horror story.

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local-beat/Traffic-and-Transit-Update-12-Hour-Commute-114710519.html?dr

[TriGirl 343]

My language teacher left school at 4 pm and arrived home at 3 am. School is in Rosslyn, her home is in Tyson's Corner.

See the upside, and always wear your parachute! -- Christopher Titus

Shut Up & Jump!

[wayneflorida 0]

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My language teacher left school at 4 pm and arrived home at 3 am. School is in Rosslyn, her home is in Tyson's Corner.

Wonder how many stranded people had emergency kits in their cars?

Even the President's motorcade got stuck in that mess because weather was too bad for Marine One when he flew into Andrews. The SS were probably going apeshit.

[skydiver30960 0]

I guess what surprises me is that people are themselves surprised by this. It was only a year ago that this area got nuked with a similar storm and had similarly long drives.

I live in SW Virginia, so not right in DC but close enough to share the same weather. A counterpart of mine took 13 hours to drive home on I-64 and I-81 during the snowstorm in 12/2009. I stayed at the hospital, got PAID to sleep, and worked the next shift for overtime, then got home in about 1.5 hrs (normally a 40 min. drive).

This is one of the bad things about our neck of the woods: we're far enough north to get storms that will really drop some accumulation on us, but not so far north that the politicians see the point in sinking millions of dollars into plow equipment they'll need only a few days out of the year.

When we see storms like this on the radar, we need to be ready to all take a bite of the shit sandwich. For people like me who can't reasonably skip work because of the weather (I'm an ICU nurse), that means packing extra clothes and getting mentally prepared for spending a night or two on incredibly uncomfortable hospital stretchers. For those that can miss work, it means thinking far enough ahead and telling the boss that the safety of you and your family is more important than getting those TPS reports done.

Things are still pretty much at a standstill around here. Last year, I seemed to have to work during every major snowfall. This year it's the reverse: I've been home on stretches off for both snows so far.


Elvisio "warm and snug at home" Rodriguez

[wildcard451 0]

Well, we only got 6" here, and I work right off of I95. I stayed at work til 8pm and drove home with NO issues, other than a little slippery secondary roads.

Here is where it all went wrong. Normal commutes from DC south the the Fredericksburg area run 2 hours+ during daily rush hour anyway. Now the Snow started like clockwork @ 3pm, with heaviest snow from 4-7, sometimes up to 2" an hour. Schools let out early, the government let out 2 hours early, and that was right when the dumping started, so it was a perfect traffic fuckup.

[Amazon 7]

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This is one of the bad things about our neck of the woods: we're far enough north to get storms that will really drop some accumulation on us, but not so far north that the politicians see the point in sinking millions of dollars into plow equipment they'll need only a few days out of the year.



Elvisio "warm and snug at home" Rodriguez

I grew up in a climatologically abusive family. For some reason my Grandfather who grew up in an OLD southern family felt he could make more money in construction in the North. So our family ended up spending WINTERS in Wisconsin and SUMMERS in FLorida. ( try that shit when you are not acclimated)

In Wisconsin all of the municipal dump trucks, garbage trucks, etc were fitted with attachment points for snow plows. When the weather looked like it was going to snow... the rows and rows of plows were installed onto all those vehicles, ready to do battle with Mother Nature. Once the weather passed and they were no longer needed they would be taken off and stored away for the next round of nasty weather.

[jrmrangers 0]

i didnt get stuck in the traffic yesterday but this winter is starting to get expensive. The last big storm i missed 2 days of work due to lack of bus service. Once again the busses were not running today, so another missed day of work. I dont get paid if im not at work and everyday i miss hurts.

Wait , I pull what first?

[TriGirl 343]

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Well, we only got 6" here, and I work right off of I95. I stayed at work til 8pm and drove home with NO issues, other than a little slippery secondary roads.

Here is where it all went wrong. Normal commutes from DC south the the Fredericksburg area run 2 hours+ during daily rush hour anyway. Now the Snow started like clockwork @ 3pm, with heaviest snow from 4-7, sometimes up to 2" an hour. Schools let out early, the government let out 2 hours early, and that was right when the dumping started, so it was a perfect traffic fuckup.

Then the problem with the GW Parkway is that for very long stretches, there are no exits! That's how people got stuck for so long. They couldn't try another route, or maybe get a hotel room, or even just pull into a restaurant and have dinner for awhile. Then some people just left their cars there and walked home, leaving even more obstacles.

See the upside, and always wear your parachute! -- Christopher Titus

Shut Up & Jump!

[wildcard451 0]

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Well, we only got 6" here, and I work right off of I95. I stayed at work til 8pm and drove home with NO issues, other than a little slippery secondary roads.

Here is where it all went wrong. Normal commutes from DC south the the Fredericksburg area run 2 hours+ during daily rush hour anyway. Now the Snow started like clockwork @ 3pm, with heaviest snow from 4-7, sometimes up to 2" an hour. Schools let out early, the government let out 2 hours early, and that was right when the dumping started, so it was a perfect traffic fuckup.

Then the problem with the GW Parkway is that for very long stretches, there are no exits! That's how people go stuck for so long. They couldn't try another route, or maybe get a hotel room, or even just pull into a restaurant and have dinner for awhile. The some people just left their cars there and walked home, leaving even more obstacles.

Yeah. I don't like GW.