Heidi Brown, art director for seattletimes.com, reports on her commute:

I live in the Renton Highlands, and it normally takes me about 45 minutes to get to work. I decided to leave about the same time I usually do (8 a.m.) to see what traffic would be like. I travel up Coal Creek and hop on I-90 and then off at I-5, and I stuck with my normal commute. I think it was the fastest commute I've had, about 30 minutes. Traffic is usually slow getting onto I-5 from I-90 (can take about 10 minutes to get through the mess), but since I-5 is closed south of that, it was a breeze. Now I'm just concerned that commuters will see how good the traffic was and it will get bad.