Killer traffic and worse!

I've complained about the traffic in this town before. It's no secret that our road system sucks. Perhaps you've heard me say that it takes me nearly an hour to do an 8-9 mile commute in the mornings. Yeah, it's that bad.

We're one of the fastest growing counties in the state, particularly in this southern section where we reside, and while we've had an incredible influx of residents- I could look up the numbers, but I'm lazy- probably doubled our population in the last 10 years, they've done little or nothing to aid in the traffic problems. We have no mass transit other than one bus system that get you nowhere and only runs until about 5 pm. And there's, maybe two cab companies with five cabs or more. So everyone HAS to drive, whether they want to or not.

Ok, so Thursday, sitting at work, we notice that traffic on the main road outside our doors isn't moving well. Odd because it's not a usual rush hour. Clients start showing up late for their appointments or calling and cancelling because they can't even get out of their neighborhoods because of the backups. Finally we learn that there's a water line broken and they're having to tear up a portion of a major intersection about 3 miles from our clinic.

I call hubby on his cell to tell him to find an alternate route home, he tells me he's got me beat-- he's stuck in traffic on the other side of town- he's sitting behind a plane wreck! *smacks forehead*

So that was Thursday. Yesterday a tanker overturned on the interstate just south of our exit. The interstate was closed for 9 hours. Of course, with the interstate closed, everyone exited onto our already over-crowded local roads, and we had tie-ups in town that lasted two to three hours all over.

And if the tragedy of these folks- the people in the plane, and the trucker guy- dying wasn't bad enough, the news treated it like a carnival. There were people out having street parties in the middle of the road- it was festive, a reason for a party! I find that sick. Maybe they could have used the opportunity to talk about driving safety, or how truckers have to drive for so many hours straight without sleeping, putting us in danger. Maybe they could have offered their condolences to the deceased driver's family. No, they had to talk about the economic windfall for the town- how the gas stations were all but out of gas and the sandwich shops were overflowing. Almost as if to say Dude! Flip a truck every week!

Anyway, that's my early morning rant. I'm off to work for the morning. Y'all have a good weekend.

I actually have a picture of the plane crash that I was going to post, but 1. blogger's a bitch today and 2. it seems kind of wrong, ya know? If anyone wants to see what a plane crash looks like, I'll just email ya, ok? :)