a coworker of mine had to go to the dentist monday. the dentist is in bellevue, his home is in Everett (25 or 30 miles at the most). It took him 8 hours to get home. he sat and didn't move for 5 hours. His wife could not find any info from the news or the online Seattle traffic website until 10 minutes before his car started to move. An articulated bus had jack knifed and blocked all lanes.. for 5 hours..

unfortunately, this is not an unusual seattle snowstorm story.
(we're talking about 2 or 3 inches here!)