Dutton: Spending Ottawa's storm night in my car — a cautionary tale from the road

Tuesday night’s storm meant early deadlines at the newspaper, and thus afforded me the rare opportunity to leave work on schedule — 10 p.m. — for what I anticipated would be a longer-than-usual 80-kilometre commute from the Ottawa Citizen/Ottawa Sun building on Baxter Road to my home in Lanark Highlands.
I’ve been doing this commute for more than 23 years and, having shrugged off the offer of an office couch or simply checking into a hotel this night, I figured I was, as