So, I have to detail my drive home. Unfortunately, my story is
kind of boring. Took a little over an hour to get home, leaving
about 3pm. The record around the office seems to have been
about a 15 hour drive home.

What
the heck I’m talking about for non locals

A series of compounding events and inclement road
conditions led to the worse traffic I’ve ever seen
in my ~12 years of living in Raleigh.

Odd that the huge ice storm a few years ago, the
20 inches of snow also a few years ago, or any of
the two or three hurricanes in the time didn’t
seem to cause remotely as much traffic problems.

It being kind of unexpected combined with everyone
being out was a bad combo. The huge ice storm
a few years ago was a surprise, but it was later
in the evening, iirc.

I hope a traffic engineer somewhere has a nice
set of interesting data to analise now.