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Hearts make a mess of clearing their lines again and John Lundstram smashes one over from 20-odd yards.

Kittell said the storm could make a mess of the Monday morning commute, including freeway flooding and major delays across L.A.

"We'd planned to keep talking to people and we mustn't fight, argue or make a mess of it this time. We kept saying to each other 'be happy'."

Since The Seattle Times Traffic Lab began in 2017, our reporters, photographers and news artists have broken news on everything from massive projects to the politics behind the policies to when upcoming roadwork just might make a mess of your weekend driving.

It can take tens of thousands of years to cycle through a geological epoch, just a couple of hundred for industrialization to make a mess of the planet, and only a decade or two to delude people into making decisions based on flawed time frames — whether it’s a 30-year mortgage or a political term that resets every four years.