Rough weekend, but my head feels rather better today. S’posed to snow/icy rain this afternoon, so I caught up on work today, then bolted out into a winter storm to try and get people where they needed to be before things got nutz.
Too late.
Idiocy reigned supreme, and it’s a damn good thing that everything cancelled. There’s exactly NO way I’d have gotten anyone to where they needed to be - The Moron Patrol was out en mass, fully supported by the International Jackoff Association and the Amalgamated Brotherhood of Fuckwits. It took me three hours to drive 16 miles. The last two miles alone took a full hour. Yes, I saw numerous accidents, but you know, they weren’t actually blocking any traffic, and things were so slow, thanks to the Allied Forces of Stupidity, that there was effectively no rubbernecking delay. So I can’t blame the snail’s crawl on the wrecks; Especially since the last two miles, which were by far the worst, were entirely accident free.
Most insultingly, not more than a quarter mile from home, at a traffic light, the traffic went from dead-crawl to normal speed in quite literally the distance of one intersection. There’s absolutely nothing special about that intersection, but on one side, idiocy. On the other, normalcy. It’s like there was a stupid-ray targeted on a 1-mile radius, centered on Churchman’s Crossing.
I saw more than a dozen rescue vehicles, including seven ambulances, forcing their ways to one destination or another, and people were cutting them off! Other people were tailgating them! Where the FUCK is a flamethrower when you need one?!
I saw vehicles upside down, on their sides, and backwards. All low-speed wrecks, all minor in visible damage, just the results of allowing morons to drive in a winter storm - Mind you, a mild winter storm. Nothing Like what Una and Fierra face on a regular basis. No, just a little freezing rain. The salt trucks were out in force, the main and secondary roads were quite passable, albeit a bit slick - all you had to do was pay attention and slow down a bit. But noooo… People had to either panic, or not adjust at all. In about even proportions. End result? One pissed-off commuter whom actualy knows how to drive in this kind of weather. It’s not like it’s unknown or anything… It happens every winter. So why is it that so many morons, idiots, fuckwits, and jackoffs have failed to figure it out?
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