Fort McMurray, one way in and one way out. Only one road that goes all the way through the city. On the map above I live at the very top near those green things and as you can see, that one road is also the only road that I can get from my house to any other part of the city and back home again so, when I got off work tonight at midnight from the hospital (which is in the cluster in the middle of the map) and that one road was completely blocked off north bound to let a wide load go through, I had to backtrack south all the way to the bottom of the map (about 5 minutes) and wait in the Shell gas station parking lot until it cleared up. Traffic was at a dead halt and did not move an inch for almost 45 minutes. Good times. This one road often gets blocked up with wide loads and accidents on the bridge (which you can see crossing the river just above the cluster in the middle). It should take me 10 minutes to get to work yet, this city is so busy that when I start work at 7:30 AM I have to leave by 6:40 at the absolute LATEST if I want to be there on time. But I shouldn't complain, at least I don't have to ride a bus every day for 2-3 hours like Cody!
BUT...at least we get to see these every once in a while...and they sure look really awesome!
sounds a little like my situation...there is literally one road that takes you around the entire island, no other routes, and when there's an accident you're for sure gonna be sitting in your car for a good 4 hours. it's a good thing i don't get out that much ;)
ReplyDeletei didn't know you had a blog! come on!
ReplyDeletenow i can follow you around. ...on the internet. :)