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The Worst Commute Home I have Ever Been In


A huge truck tipped over on I-15, blocking 4 out of 6 lanes of traffic yesterday.

Heres a link to the story. Link

My dad had a home teaching appointment to go to so he had my brother go and pick me up. He leaves at 5:30. The whole thing isn't supposed to take more than 30 minutes.

My brother picked me up from work at 6:00. We got stuck in the mess, even when trying to avoid it at 6:10 (Every single road up to Davis county was going at a snails pace.) Around 8:00 my brother being frusterated with Redwood road an turns onto I-215. I point out that it was probably a big mistake.

The car dies on us at 8:30 while on I-215, we push it to the side of the road.
It seems that 2 and a half hours of going an average speed of 3 mph wasn't enough for the alternator. The engine shuts down, and we can't start it up.

Eventually someone offers us a cell phone, and we call my dad to come help us out. While wishing that I had something to drink, someone offers us to cold bottled waters.

He heads southbound (which was fine) turns onto I-215, and reaches us at 9:00. Using jump cables we give the battery enough juice to start.

We get funneled into the 2 lanes around 9:30, where we saw the gigantic truck and it's load taking up 4 lanes. Along with several cranes.

I finally get home at 10:00. And the person my dad was to home teach was stuck in it as well.

There has been a big issue about something called the Legacy Highway, which they have been building in order to aleviate the problem (for several years). The previous SLC mayor Rocky Anderson did everything he could to block and stall it with the support of an Enviromentalist group The Sierra Club.

-- Edited by Pt314 at 09:17, 2008-07-30

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Three things can tell you a lot about a man. The way they handle 1. A rainy day, 2. Tangled Christmas lights, and 3. A Traffic Jam. biggrin.gif

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When handling #3, my husband is a different man than he is at any other time. I don't hold it against him. :)

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I hate people...imagine me having to drive during rush hour. I don't. I have not had to drive in rush hour for years...

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Mirk, I didn't suspect such misanthropic tendencies in you!

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You hate people? Wait- are you my DAD? jawdrop.gif

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Yikes! I guess there really is some project to try to find out if Joseph Smith had kids with other women besides Emma... Weird how that was supposed to be a commandment for "more seed" or something and he doesn't seem to have any "other" kids... confuse.gif

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