Let's just call it a sick day

[telerib]

6:00am: Depart house
6:20am: Hit heavy traffic
6:40am: Learn from radio that highway to work is closed due to flooding.
7:20am: Get off highway to get gas. Unable to return to highway due to immense traffic on side-road.
7:40am: Begin Washington, DC backroads odessey.
8:10am: Find alternate road that goes to work. End up going the wrong way. Get turned around. Ignore traffic cones.
8:30am: Discover reason for traffic cones - off-ramp to work is flooded. Screw this.
9:00am: Make it to the Beltway
10:10am: Home

Four hours, sixty miles. Oy vey.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

That's okay - the cafeteria's shut down (at least for breakfast & probably for lunch) 'cause many of the workers were heavily delayed. Metro was flooded in a couple of spots downtown - some of the most heavily used stations in the system were closed or bypassed due to the flooding. I got on the Green Line 3 times to get to work, and the time required for my commute was doubled. (From 1 hour, 20 minutes to 2:40.) My boss got here about an hour late.

-Sarah

[(Anonymous)]

...And the ride home wasn't any better. It took me 1:15 to get home tonight, and I left the office in Tysons at 8:15.

The irony is that I actually thought that I would miss all the traffic by staying that late. Yeah, right.

-Steve.