The highway department wants to do another full road closure this coming winter, from October through May 2018. And this summer they plan to close the highway weeknights from 9 pm to 5 am. The current closure is 3 miles long, the next one will be 10 miles long so it will take at least an hour to wait for the line of cars to make it up and back if we miss the queue. Right now it's only 20 minutes.







People are not happy about this, especially the ones who live in a neighborhood where they are locked in at night. I could go to Las Vegas for several of those months, but I'd have to resign my positions on various flood recovery boards and committees, and I'd miss the activity and knowing what was going on.

It'll all work out, but will take awhile to get used to the idea of another winter like this one has been for getting where I need to go. Two years from now, once all the work is completed, maybe I'll look back and see it as a blip in the timeline of our lives, but it seems like the older I get and the less time I have to live, it's harder to accept things that feel like a waste of time when I could be doing something I enjoyed rather than enduring.