It sure looked like a lot of people did indeed choose to not drive around today. By early afternoon, only four cars had driven up my dead-end but overly busy street: my mail carrier, one stranger, one cop and, an hour before the cop, one of our regular drug dealers looking for his usual homeless customers at the public rest-room in the park.

Of the people who did choose to drive, I'm not surprised at all the photos of the suburbanites crashing. I even saw a moron in a large pick-up pass a car on Railroad Blvd. Apparently the car was being driven in too safe a manner for the pick-up driver.