I may be "preaching to the choir", but if it wasn't for my wife listening to a scanner, I may have either been stuck at work or stuck on the roadways on Tuesday.
I went to work concerned about the weather situation, especially when it started sleeting while I was driving to work. I can't listen to my scanner at work, because the concrete and steel block nearly all signals. I can pick up the Montgomery EDACS system, but with nearly all public safety using ProVoice, there isn't much I can pick up anymore. Anyway, she was listening in, hearing the wrecks, iced bridges, etc and phoning reports in to me. I decided to leave about an hour before work shut down, and even though I took it slow going home, there was no traffic to speak of and I didn't get caught up in any wrecks.
Folks that I know that left work an hour later saw there 30 minute commute take four hours!