Your Monday morning roads report after monster snow

If you're not still in school, or a teacher or school administrator, you're facing the task of making the trek to work today. There is good news and bad news.

I just made the commute into beautiful downtown Primos.

Full confession: Since I worked last night, I actually started working this morning from home. That's part of the problem. Normally when I'm on the road, there is almost no one else out. It's nice to have the road to yourself.

You won't have that luxury this morning. For more reasons than one.

First things first: The main roads are fine. Yes, there are a few snow-covered spots, but I just sailed down West Chester Pike and Route 1 Bypass. No problems.

I even dated Providence Road, and it wasn't really an issue.

The biggest problem you might have is getting out of your development, and maybe your driveway, depending on how good a shoveling job you did.

That does not mean there are not issues.

Here's the biggest problem. There is so much snow piled up on the sides of the road, that the passageways are much narrower than normal. In many instances, there is barely enough room for two cars to pass in different directions. Turn lanes have been obliterated in some spots.

Any time you are taking a turn, use caution, the snow is piled on every corner, not leaving much space to complete your turn. I ran into one big issue when I cruised up to the light at the new intersection to go right on Route 252 from Providence Road near Rose Tree Park. Normally when I tool through there earlier, there is no one on the road, I take my right turn and sail on toward the Bypass.

Not this morning. The right-turn lane was still snow-covered. The guy in front of me was trying to take a left. And that's the problem.

The light never changed. All it did was give the right-hand turn green light. But he wanted to go left. It never gave him a green light. The guy behind me, of course, decided to lay on the horn. Eventually he went around both of us and made his right turn. Not that bright since that is the lane cars were using to turn left from Route 252 to go on Providence.

I actually waited through another entire light before I also went around the guy.

Take it easy and you won't have a problem. Just be sure to realize you don't have anywhere near as much space as you normally do.

That's a testament to how much snow we got.