So, my commute (along with hundreds of thousands of other people) was snarled this morning because of a fire at a welding company. There was an explosion at the welding company and 2 were injured, one with bad burns. The local police called multiple alarms, and they shut down both Route 46, which is a major E/W road through northern NJ, and NJ Transit Main Line (which runs behind the property) as a precaution. That led to long delays on the train, and detours for all the cars that normally take Route 46 (and added traffic to Route 80, Route 3, and Route 4.

What a mess.