Why is it that the residents of the DFW metroplex seem to have immense trouble driving in any weather condition other than “blazing hot sun”? It took me 2.5 hours to get to work this morning. This is a trip that normally takes about 1 hour. My commute is 34 miles. I averaged 13.6 MPH. That’s about 1200 feet per minute. That means that in one entire minute of driving, I would have only passed 30 average sized, stopped cars. You know that grocery store 5 miles down the road from you? At this rate, it would take you 22 minutes to get there.
The worst part is that there are three places where the traffic gets backed up. At not one of them (nor anywhere else in my commute) was there an accident that I could see. Additionally, according to the traffic on the radio, there was never an accident during the entire morning on any portion of my commute, nor did any other accidents have traffic that bled into the roads that I take on my commute.
So, why, you might ask, was traffic so bad? Beats the hell out of me.
Ugh. I’m ready to go home.