Advice needed from Seattle members

If you can work the off hours your commute will be much better than the rest of us. I commute 75 miles one way but in the morning I leave my house at 4:30 and it takes me a little over an hour to get in. The evenings are a whole 'nother story. If I haven't left by 430 I usually stay until 630 and let the traffic clear out. When I have a carpool partner it helps a ton as well. I work right next to Safeco and Qwest fields and if I can roll in the carpool lane I can get on the express lanes at Cherry st and stay in the carpool lane all the way up to the north side of Everett, saving me at least 45 minutes. As far as snow on the ground and people leaving their cars and walking, as stupid as it sounds it happens. If people around here can see snow, not even on the road surface, I will gaurantee that the commute will be miserable and you will see people do things that there is absolutely no logical explanation for. And rain, well it seems to have the same effect on roughly half of those people, even though they saw it yesterday.

Jason