It was 70 degrees on Wednesday, only four days ago. What happens on Friday? We get a Nor'easter, which blankets the Boston area with a blizzard.
I was supposed to drive back to Lowell at 6:00pm last night from Cambridge, a trip which usually takes me about 45 minutes with light traffic. When I'm on my way, I open Google Maps on my Blackberry to check live traffic conditions. Any red areas along my route mean stopped traffic. Usually there are a few red spots on all the different highways I take to get to Lowell (RT2->I95->RT3).
At 4:00pm, with all the snow coming down, I decided to take a look at the map ahead of time -- here is what I saw:
I had never seen so many red areas at once! I decided to postpone driving to Lowell and instead opted to wait until traffic cleared a little. I kept watching the traffic map, to see when the traffic would change. By 7:00pm, three hours later, here is what it looked like:
Holy crap! I feel for the people who had to drive in all that traffic (but not if you were driving to a bar!).
Were you stuck in the traffic? Let me hear about it -- I was sitting inside on my computer the whole time. 🙂
Haha, I tried to throw a small party that night, expecting 30 people to come, I had about 8 or 9 guests arrive, 3 of which I picked up lol