Originally Posted by
bitterproffit
That being said, it took me an hour to get home from work as the freeways heading north and south from downtown Nashville were jammed. Surface streets that are usually packed were pretty wide open though, so it wasn't as bad as it could have been.
Took us over 7 hours to drive north afterward from Nashville to LEX, a little over 200 miles. I-65 was jammed north of Hopkinsville, which had near the max totality. At one point we got no more than 2 miles in an hour.
Must have been the worst traffic that stretch of road has ever experienced. The road construction barrels and barriers when no work was going on did not help.