I try to leave around 7:45 or 7;50 at the latest since that will get me to my work site just on time, but there was a very bad accident (read fatal) last night so I think that's why the local streets were backed the hell up

Ugh I'm so sorry, that's very stressful, not to mention that horrible accident...

such is California

I usually take local streets instead of the highway but if something major happens on the latter, the former gets clogged up real bad