Stuck in traffic on one of Brisbane's busiest roads was not the way I expected to start my career at the ABC in 1986 but it became a regular horror.
Each afternoon, I would head into the weather bureau in the city to pick up the charts and a satellite photo and have a briefing from the senior forecaster. The allocated time was 4:30pm and not before, so it was inevitable that I would join the peak-hour traffic on Coronation Drive for the run out of the city. I would arrive at the station, cursing the traffic, frazzled and often late.
