My home: One tree=four hours of traffic

Holy crap, I had an exhausting day at work. It was just one thing after another.

My personal favorite story of the day, however, has got to be about how a crew of tree-trimmers caused a clusterfuck of a traffic jam that lasted for almost four hours. They were cutting down ONE tree and had to close ONE lane of traffic for a few hours to get the job done.

Of course, there were only a total of TWO lanes on the road, which also happened to be the ONLY road to town from the south side. Yup, infrastructure is clearly lacking.

The guy in charge of the trimming seemed flabbergasted by the public's reaction--irate motorists called the mayor's office, the county road crews, the police, even the Civil Defense Agency.

Yup. And in case you're interested, it was an African tulip tree. A non-native plant with pretty purple flowers that leave a lot of rubbish and unruly branches on the road if not pruned.

Well, I'm going to go bury myself in a book, wake up in six hours and start all over again.