I drove into town this morning, you'd think a football game just let out.....Cars, SUV's, trucks with campers, motor homes, large 18 wheeler's....East bound, of course all the folks from west going east, the other direction, people from the east going west.... If a person had a view from the sky, I think it would look like rush hour out in L.A......Boy oh howdy, the oil companies are sure going to make a bundle over this holiday period.

Good thing I run out of bread crumbs, or I'd get lost going much of anywhere any more.


WuzzFuzz

I do 95% of my driving mid- day mid- week, and appears that almost any hour is "rush hour."
I used to enjoy driving, but not so much with today's traffic.

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Always Stay Strong!

With the condition of the roads any more, a person is almost better off taking the gravel roads to where ever...Where there used to be a hole..Pot hole..it's been patched, now it's another bump in the road instead of a hole......Some of those roads and their pot holes, I think I'd better keep a pass port with me and a suit case packed, because I'm going to fall in one of those holes and end up in China one of these times.


At lease on the country roads, usually the county maintainer (that's a road grader to some of you folks) will come along and blade the road smooth again.


WuzzFuzz

That's one of the reasons we moved to a small town in the mountains of West Virginia.
We have one stop sign in town and the nearest traffic light's 'bout 20 miles away.
The mountains are less than a mile away and there's lotsa places for hiking, biking, camping or just floating down the local river.
It's beautiful out here and life's simple.

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Keep on Chooglin'

Or down off the ottoman as the case may be.

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Possum—The other white meat!

And your excuse for not being home was better than the others?

Even though it was Sunday, my little girl (Dashund) was getting low on her insulin..(I'd probably be ok until Tuesday, but....The phamacys in town are open, and I needed to get some more milk and some munchies while I was there.


Even that, seems like a cross country trip to me any more.

WuzzFuzz

The awful traffic and long distance commuting to the Baltimore area was one of the reasons I retired. I got hired on my last job in 2010 and after a couple years the traffic seemed to get worse. I asked somebody if I was losing my mind thinking traffic was getting worse and the answer I got was since other people who were laid off around the time I was laid off were getting new jobs so I wasn't imagining the traffic getting worse. But I was sure happy when I started the last trip home from my office on December 31, 2015 at 3:30 PM (but who was watching the clock).

snub, i don't get how you can live in a low traffic area n still have access to buffalo for the grill.

no traffic out here, but if i want something nice to eat it has to be shipped in.

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susie

I’m happiest when I am at home. Off duty I try to avoid society.

I stay home too much. Just a boring old man who don't go much of anywhere.

With all the millennials living in their parents basements, it's the only way to enjoy the holidays

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it just needs more voltage

I moved about 3 miles in the city two years ago and the reduction in traffic was surprising. Not helping at the old place was development further West and South that caused the traffic in the major surface streets in that area to increase over the last three years I lived there. The old place had a developed a continuous hum of traffic 24/7. At this house the silence is remarkable.

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Release the Kraken

I find it interesting your Ranting about people doing the same thing you were doing !!!

Drove to Newnan GA yesterday to see my new Great Granddaughter. Every time I'm there for a while afterword I complain less about our local traffic. But while I was holding little Kensli there was no complaining at all.

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Old Age Ain't For Sissies

You're probably right, but I wasn't traveling from one coast to the other as the out of state lic plated vehicles were doing.

Think of me as sort of like that weather reporter standing out in the middle of a storm, someone has to be out there to report about it.


WuzzFuzz

On the rare occasion I have to leave my property and pass over the Mass Turnpike..all 6 lanes stuffed with vehicles usually not moving..I often wonder where everyone is going?Miles of cars crawing along to their destinations. Good thing they all have those 300HP "eco" engines to help them along.. I'm just running a local errand..because I could not wait for UPS to bring it to me,and I do like to support local businesses once in a while.

Word is 'Noonan' GA was a great place til MARTA

came.. Rumor is 0ur resident 629/75Corvette Lover

frequents that area;-)

I love that name—very nice! Congratulations.

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I spend more and more time at our cabin/farm about 40 mins from the house. Sept thru June the only traffic past the place is the school bus at 8:45am and 4:15 pm.Do not wear a watch just use the bus for time checks.Like it that way.

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SWHF#407

Regarding traffic at all times. My question isn't whether anyone stays home, I wonder if anybody works any more.

When them EBT cards are recharged, look out. You can't get near the parking lot of the local WallyWorld. Joe

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Wisdom chases me; I'm faster

I've often wondered more or less the same thing. I know lots of people commute into my city to work, but seeing the interstate traffic backed up all the way to county and state lines (no exaggeration there at all) really makes me wonder...where do they come from, where are they going. Thousands and thousands of them.

There's one seriously dangerous phenomenon around here...and other places, too, I guess. Anyone who's driven on I-77N or I-77S in North Carolina...especially from the Cabarrus County line all the way through Charlotte and on down to the South Carolina line...will know about this. You can be zipping along nicely at 70 or 75mph, and then all of a sudden you'll see brake lights starting to come on in front of you. And then traffic in all three and four lanes will slow, then come to a complete stop...and you're watching your mirror, bracing yourself for the rear end collision you just know is coming. Then you'll inch along at 5 mph for a mile or two, then it'll speed right back up again. There's been no problem, no wreck, no cops with blue lights, no nothing.

I've yet to figure out the reason(s) traffic just stops. Maybe they're all just nuts, I don't know.

I now leave the house at 0400 when I am traveling long distance. Very light traffic if any at all at those hours.

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Smith. And Wesson. And Me!

The 4th and Turkey day are two times that I hate to have to drive, any where!!

Plus most places, the kids are out of school which will add campers and boats to the mix.

Honey, was that a parking spot ?? !!

I believe all the busyness is an indicator of a booming economy.

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Death? Smile back...

The dumbing down of Americans started a long time ago with the addiction to professional sports. Now that our functional IQ's have about bottomed out. everybody just drives around in their cars. . .mostly lost in space. When my wife was still teaching, she would tell me about all the teachers she worked with. They would get off at the end of the school day, get in their cars, and just drive around. Many told my wife they just didn't want to be home. I imagine that, when the history books are written, some historian will reveal the exact date when the American brain turned to dust.

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Dr. B

Twice a week we go to the YMCA in Cumberland Maryland. Takes us between 45 minutes to an hour. While we're there, we do our shopping at the stores that are local to the YMCA.

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Keep on Chooglin'

We stay home as much as possible. Love every minute of it.

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S&WCA #3065

I made 2 road trips in the past 5 days, total of about 600 miles. Most miles were rural except I35 into Minneapolis. I don't mind the traffic except when someone tailgates me, especially when I'm driving the Mini.. Had a $75,000 SUV about 2 feet behind me and no way for either of us to change lanes, Grrrr! Flipped him off when he passed me, doubt he saw it but it made me feel better.

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I agree, but early in the morning the deer are out....I don't have too many recipes for road kill.

If I'm on a interstate road early in the morning, I try to stay behind a 18 wheeler..I'll let him hit it first.,...I'll get the scraps.


WuzzFuzz

This would be many central Arkansas drivers if they had a 40 ounce can of malt liquor in a paper sack in one hand, and were texting with a cell phone in the other. (You drive with your knees with the seat laid back).

And I have to rhetorically ask—do they really think the paper sack fools the police?


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Nobody stays home! They come to Okoboji in the summer. With the 4th falling in the middle of the week, we have have had holiday traffic since Thursday and will until Sunday. My only wish is that they understood the concept of a 3-lane highway, grumble, grumble......

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i hate to drive at any time....too many crazies and nascar wannabees on the road.......

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Aw shucks, They're only coming to Okoboji to meet the one and only Pawngal.


WuzzFuzz

Since moving to Florida I have noticed that red lights and stop signs are merely a suggestion. I have never seen so many red lights ran without even slowing down. It may just be here in Pensacola but it is really bad. I was talking to a county officer at the gun club the other day about it, he said if they stopped every car that ran a red light they would have to add on additional officers to handle the paperwork.

Maybe, but if you set the level of fines just right you would have some great schools.

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Release the Kraken

I moved to the country a few years. I still have everything I still had in the city.
All the stores one will every need or use. And I might add the hours drive to get to them is such a present drive.

I prefer to move about when less people are outside since I'm not a big people person. Rush hour is not fun and I stay inside during that time, I'll wait till 7-8 to go out when the roads clear up.

Yeah, we get tourists out here and they haven't the slightest idea of how to drive our curvy hilly roads. You can smell their brakes burning.

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Keep on Chooglin'

It's the Domino effect, all it takes is one car to tap their brakes. With that much traffic running those speeds each car must slow down a little more than the car in front of them till someone comes to a complete stop. Then all trucks weighing up to 80,000 have a hard time getting back up to speed. I see it every day every where I go on the big road.

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Keeping America Moving

4 years ago I used to cross the Newburg bridge on i84 east bound in New York between 2 and 4am twice a week. I asked the toll collector who we got to know after 6 years of doing it. "Where the heck is everybody going" she said if you ever find out let me know.

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Keeping America Moving

That's the kind of roads I love to drive. Mini Cooper 6 speed stick shift ya don't need brakes. Just downshift and get on it!

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Super Snooper

That's what I wonder when I go fishing on a weekday and the lake is crowded.

Lots of the people you see driving around are environmentalist going somewhere to check out the damage being done to the planet by big oil.

But, of course "THEIR" trip is necessary and important.

Take all the greenies in the Seattle area. Easy to find them. Any time between 6am and 7pm they will fill I5 and 205 4 lanes wide with 3500# hunks of metal all carrying 1 150-225# sub human.

I was especially impressed when the big arctic drilling rig was in port on its way north. Hordes of them drove their oil burners to the bay, got their plastic (hydrocarbon based) kayaks off the roof and paddled out to protest. Oh, but my car is electric! LOL, yes, and most electricity in America still comes from coal fired generators. I only buy clean power. Sure uh huh. Somehow the electrons in the wires coming to your house some how know how to only be pushed by no coal fired generators. What a joke.

It's funny. I work for a courier, so my wife and I are on the road a LOT. Two-fifty, three hundred miles a day is fairly routine, 500-600 is not unheard of. I don't really think the traffic is all that heavy. Sure, up around DC at certain times of the day, but my GPS usually routes me around that pretty much. The worst is probably in tidewater, Va. though. Sooner or later, you pretty much have to cross some water.

Just about anywhere else. Routine.

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