It's all feedback loops. So many people stayed off the roads due to the predictions of gloom and doom (due to telecommuting, or simply going on vacation) that it more than compensated for the messed-up situation.
Basically, they did a good enough job of scaring the hell out of everyone that pretty much everyone is working around the problem in some fashion. Which of course means that there's no problem...
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Basically, they did a good enough job of scaring the hell out of everyone that pretty much everyone is working around the problem in some fashion. Which of course means that there's no problem...