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Today was the worst commute of my life!! I work in the DC area which has very heavy traffic to begin with and this afternoon we got hit with some very very heavy snow.
I left work at 3:30 p.m. It took me 50 minutes just to get out of my work complex!! Yes, 50 minutes from the work garage to the main road. I guess everyone decided to leave at the same time. From there to the main highway, I-66, was about another hour. I didn’t get over 25-30 mph on the main highway.
I managed to get really close to home before my car got stuck going up a mountain road. My car was blocking the road so nobody could get by. Luckily two men were able to push my car out of the way so the cars could go by.
I started walking home in the blizzard and pitch darkness, hoping no one would run me over. I called my husband to come get me in his 4-wheel drive. I got home at 8:15 p.m., almost FIVE hours later!!! It usually takes me only an hour to an hour and 15 minutes to get home. What a nightmare!!
I am glad that I didn’t have an accident or get stuck somewhere really far from home because there were plenty of stuck vehicles and accidents that I saw on my way home.
So far we have had 8 inches and the snow is still coming down hard.
I’m glad you are ok!!!!! Are you going back out into it today?
Vikki
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Oh Diane what a nightmare! And I complain that it takes me 1 to 1 1/2 hrs. to get home from work. We never have to deal with snow but when it rains really hard it’s awful driving home after 5:00.
OMG that’s awful - I must say one of the joys of living in a city your never far from home and ease of getting home.
You have my deepest sympathy. I had a similar drive after a horrible blizzard the Friday before Christmas 2007. My drive home in the afternoon is normally 30 minutes.
IT TOOK 4.5 HOURS TO GO 17 MILES.
And no, I didn’t go in the next day LOL!!
Thanks everybody! No, I didn’t go into work today. The place I worked at was closed. I work PT so I might go in tomorrow to make up the time or just take PTO...I have plenty of leave so that’s good.
We went and got my car this morning. It’s now at the end of my driveway. I talked to some colleagues this morning. My coworker didn’t leave work until midnite and another one just left this morning at 6:30 a.m.!!
I live 47 miles from work so that’s why it took so long to get home in these terrible conditions. Hotels were booked up near work I hear... I don’t know what else I could have done other than stay really really late at work or spend the night in my car??
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I worry about you walking around in that kind of cold- don’t get frostbite! 
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