It took almost an hour for the crews to clean things up and half of that time I was sitting there waiting.
Every afternoon when all of the businesses shut down for the day, traffic is an absolute nightmare. Around 4:00, the roads are packed with people and it is impossible to go anywhere quickly. Downtown is of course the worst place to be in the afternoon. Everyone is leaving the buildings and heading toward the interstate. It’s best to be heading in the opposite direction during this time of the day. Yesterday I had a furnace repair job at 5:00 in the afternoon. It was my last job of the day and I was already on the other side of town. I knew that I was going to barely make it to the job, even if I moved quickly. I got onto the interstate and traffic was moving quickly until an accident occurred. When the accident occurred, traffic slowed down to a crawl. I was stuck a half mile behind the area where the accident was located. It took almost an hour for the crews to clean things up and half of that time I was sitting there waiting. The lady for the furnace repair was annoyed and aggravated that I didn’t get to her residence until 5:30, but there was nothing that I could do about the traffic and the accident. I did my best to make it to the appointment on time. Hopefully the traffic won’t be this bad once they get the new lanes of traffic finished. Right now we have 3 east and 3 west bound lanes, but at the beginning of the year, we will have five on each side.