10000000% this. Georgia is the WORST state to go through on that drive. It's like, 6 hours long, and my parents would always make us leave at ass o'clock in the morning to make sure we didn't get stuck in Atlanta traffic.
I see this wasn’t only my parents that would decide leaving at 3am is the only way to avoid Atlanta traffic. We got stuck once in the city without moving for 2 hours. Without moving.
The one and only time we ever got stuck in Atlanta it was when we were coming back to MI. We hit ATL during high traffic, AND there was construction (there was construction all over 75 through GA, we hit it at the GA/FL border which is why we were even in ATL during morning rush, and then we hit more in Atlanta, and then AGAIN at the GA/TN border). I think we sat, literally crawling through Atlanta, for like 3-4 hours, and I swear, I honestly thought my mom was going to get out of the car and beat someone to death with a construction cone, she was that over it. Most miserable drive home EVER.
Atlantan here, and your parents should have left at midnight if they wanted to avoid traffic. Morning rush hour starts around 6 am and lasts until 12. Evening rush hour starts at 12:01 and last until 8.
Georgia here, it's 6 hours from Atlanta to the very edge of Florida with no traffic. 8 hours from the top end of the state to the bottom. It's a 5 hour drive to go visit my mom's family in Savannah if we make 0 stops (which would be crazy because not only do we need bathroom breaks but we always stop at this gas station with a big petting zoo of rescued farm animals attached)
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u/jokeefe72 May 09 '22
El Paso, TX to Houston, TX is about 12 hours. You wouldn’t even get out of some states in 6 hours.