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That Tuesday started with an eerie stillness, the kind where Puget Sound fog swallows skyscrapers whole. My knuckles were already white on the steering wheel before I’d even merged onto I-5 – muscle memory from last winter’s seven-hour gridlock nightmare when black ice turned the highway into a parking lot. But this time felt different. My thumb instinctively swiped open the blue icon that’d become my roadside oracle over countless commutes.

That Thursday afternoon smelled like wet asphalt and impending regret. After nine hours debugging transit routing algorithms, the last thing I wanted was to become part of Seattle's concrete bloodstream. My knuckles went white gripping the steering wheel as brake lights bled crimson across I-5's rainy canvas. Then I remembered the Washington State Department of Transportation app sleeping in my phone. Opening it felt like cracking a secret codex - suddenly the highway's chaotic poetry resolved i

The metallic taste of panic coated my tongue as thick tendrils of fog swallowed the Bremerton terminal whole. My knuckles whitened around the steering wheel, headlights reflecting uselessly against the woolen gray curtain. "Thirty minutes to departure" the terminal sign lied through its flickering teeth – I'd watched that same promise evaporate with three ferries already. Somewhere beyond the soupy abyss, my daughter's piano recital was starting without me. That's when my phone buzzed with the s

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