Interesting observation....
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1263...p_MIDDLELSMini
My best, awful story involves the traffic jam from hell in the late 90s. The 30 kilometers to the airport took seven hours - the last 30 minutes pushing my Padmini taxi through waist-high water. I still made my plane though. My flight's crew was stuck in the same jam.