I wouldn't like that drive with all that traffic. We have a friend who lives 30 miles outside DC and has driven to and from her DC job for 30 years. She says you get use to it...sorry but NO hard to understand that.
I did it for years the first time I was stationed there. I would say you deal with it................. traffic sucks all the time and there are always accidents to contend with. I sat on Constitution Ave. yesterday for 30 minutes to go 5 blocks.