A Bad Drive. A Very Bad Drive

"A snow accumulation as heavy as Thursday's 9.3" at Midway Airport has occurred in December only once every 9 years. The snow, which fell at 1-2" an hour--as much as 3" in the hour between 5 and 6 p.m.- -dropped visibilities under a quarter mile at times and created a nightmarish evening rush hour. Commute times from the Loop to northwest suburban Woodfield--normally about an hour--slowed to 5 hours. Road crews were forced to battle rush hour traffic as they plowed snow and dispensed road chemicals."

My commute, normally about 30 minutes, took two hours. Scary driving. And to make matters much, much worse, I was stuck behind this license plate...