Traffic last week sucked. And sucked. And sucked. On Wednesday night the power was out in a big part of Bellevue so when we tried to go around the freeway deadlock we got stuck in a huge mess on the surface streets. All the signals were out so every intersection was a four way stop with a quarter mile backup. Fun. We actually got home in about an hour, but it was a very trying hour and that was with a HOV carpool (once we finally got on 520 at 108th).