Construction Woes

One of the disadvantages to living in a state that has four pretty distinct seasons is that the season most people consider "summer" is often synonymous with "construction". And lots of it. Because when there are only three or four months a year where the weather is likely to be conducive to doing road work, it will inevitably pile up, no matter how diligent the city planner may be.

Knowing this, I try not to complain too much about construction season. But this summer, by nature of where we live, has been a little brutal. Allow me to demonstrate.

The purple dot represents our house (ish--in reality we're probably five or six miles south of where the dot is), and the red represents areas that are under construction (either completely closed or reduced to one or two lanes). Pretty much everything we go into Sioux Falls for (including Darrell's office) is north of this map. And the one "major" north/south road that is free of any red markings turns to gravel at the southernmost point of this map. Needless to say, navigating into and back from town can be a bit of a pain. Of course, in a few short months we'll likely be complaining of snow hindering our drive into town--so I suppose this is the lesser of two evils?