The other morning, the radio guy warned me (well, not me personally) to avoid a stretch of Highway 30 up by St. Helens "at any cost."  What are we talkin' here?  If it's just because traffic is jammed, heck, I'd be willing to drive up there and sit in traffic for a couple hundred bucks.  Cash on the table, I'd probably do it for less than that.  Let's see... it's about an hour round trip from my house to St. Helens, and if I had to sit in traffic for an hour, at $50 dollars an hour... plus gas, and then I want some profit out of the deal.  Yeah.  It's going to take at least $200.  If it's more than just a traffic problem, though... Once again, what are we talkin' here?  Has a Kraken come out of the Columbia River and it's eating cars as they go down the highway?  If that's the case, yeah, you couldn't pay me enough to go up there... maybe.  I mean, how much are you willing to pay?  I'm not risking my life for $200, that's for sure, but for $200,000?  Maybe.  Half a million?  Well....  A million?  Yeah.  Where's the car keys?