What is traffic like on the highways/roads/freeways where you live?

**sheshistory** · 12-02-2010, 08:06 PM

Phoenix rush hour traffic totally sucks but I'm pretty lucky - I work from home a lot and I try get the classes I teach scheduled at times where I miss the big morning and evening commutes. I absolutely HATE driving. If I never had to drive again, I'd be fine with it. It stresses me out.

**Libra926** · 12-02-2010, 11:38 PM

I live in a little town positioned at the base of Mt. Rainer. I live 17 miles from my job. That takes me 30 to 45 minutes each way. To get in and out of Orting...it's one lane each way. It get frustrating. When we had snow last week? It took me 2.5 hours to get home.
But..It is all worth it. Our backyard view is spectacular!
But..you can only see it when it's not raining.
Or cloudy.

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**BruceP** · 12-03-2010, 07:52 AM

@Libra926 .. Very pretty ...... til it erupts!

**Libra926** · 12-03-2010, 10:33 AM

@BruceP
Yep! You are right on that. It takes forever just to get out of town when it snows. Can you image if a LAHAR warning was going off? I'd be dead. We have 30 minutes to evacuate if the warning goes off. On a normal day without traffic....it takes me 10 minutes to get up the hill. Needless to say, our next home will be out of the valley. I've instructed 2 sets of neighbors to please, please, please save my dogs if an evacuation, fire or flooding happens and we are not around.

**BruceP** · 12-03-2010, 11:01 AM

@Libra926 ...... but on the other hand you can't live your life in fear of something that may not happen for thousands of years either.

**Libra926** · 12-03-2010, 11:08 AM

@BruceP
Exactly...but Orting doesn't let you forget the danger. Once a year (I swear) the LAHAR goes off without warning. We have scheduled "practice" days that they let you know about. Usually Tuesdays at 10am. They get all the kids out of school and walking up the hill...100% participation if you are in town. But when it goes off at 3:42 on a Saturday?????? Panic and caos occurs.

**2bulliefamily** · 12-05-2010, 07:32 AM

What a beautiful pictures Libra.

**Libra926** · 12-05-2010, 01:58 PM

@BruceP
When it erupts...we are coming to live in the Kingdom.

**lexterwayne** · 12-05-2010, 11:28 PM

we really dont have bad traffic where we live in tx.. i drive 45 mins each way to work (hopefully not for long) and jeff drives 8 hrs a day or more for work lately he has been driving 60 hrs a week cause of the holiday time!!! dallas fort worth traffic is really bad epecially during rush hr traffic...