that it had started to snow but i honestly thought i was going to make it home. >> why did you think that? >> because it was only supposed to be 0-2 inches of snow. that's not that much. i believed that the roads would be taken care of. most of my commute, almost 30 miles, is on the highway. i thought i would make it. i can tell you now, i didn't. i'm still not home. >> it's just crazy. we're looking at live pictures. i think that's i-75 there, aerial shots from wxia. people are still trapped in their cars and waiting in long lines of traffic. so how long did it take you to get home? did you too have to abandon your car? >> i left cnn center around noon. it was still relatively early. the traffic was really bad. it took me about five hours to travel 20 miles. i didn't -- i wasn't prepared. i didn't have -- i had my work clothes on, my work shoes, it