Most Determined Award

We knew going to bed that snow was going to fall all night and the roads would be icy. We heard on the news last night that this morning's rush hour was going to be bad. Little did we know the rails would be bad too! Around 6 a.m. a coal train derailed, and shortly thereafter, a light rail train hit that coal train, shutting down the line Darren normally rides to work. Around 6:30 a.m., Darren called me to find out whether or not the train was even running. At that time, the news had said NO. The road he was on was shut down due to the train crash investigation. So he started driving toward the East Lines, which would mean at least an hour on one of the highways just to get over to the crowded train station on the other side of town. After spending a considerable amount of time in stand-still traffic, he was about to run out of gas and slowly made his way to a station (they are few and far between in this particular part of town) only to find the pumps were not working. I kept telling him he should come home until we figured out this mess, and the worst-case scenario would be that he'd get there by lunch. Darren was just so determined to get to work, so he back tracked and ended up getting on the road he was originally on (which had reopened) and getting on the train north of where the crash was. He had so many things go wrong this morning but he made it to work about 2 1/2 hours after he left the house. I hereby give Darren the Most Determined Award for the season!