stevenpiziks | Bad Storm

Today I had a doctor's appointment in Orchard Lake--but today was also the Day of Storms. When I got to the area where the office is, I found the traffic lights on Orchard Lake Road were all out, causing massive traffic backups. The area has new roundabouts, though, and that helped! The doctor's office still had power, so I finished the appointment, but the lights were still out on OL Road, so I hopped onto Middlebelt, a different major artery. In two places, trees had fallen and blocked the road so everyone in both directions had to take turns going around on the berm. But then I came across a cop car blocking Middlebelt entirely (I assume because lines or more trees or both were down), and everyone was shunted into this maze of subdivision streets. In the end, I had to backtrack to Orchard Lake Road to get home. What's normally a thirty-minute, easy drive changed into over an hour's worth of difficulty.

This was a bad, bad storm.