WASHINGTON - Analysts call the Sunday after Thanksgiving the most traveled day of the year and it's living up to its name.

After a mass exodus to get out of town for the holiday, everyone is now rolling in reverse as travelers try and make their way back home after the Thanksgiving weekend.

ABC 7/NewsChannel 8 reporter Richard Reeve headed out to the Springfield mixing bowl to see how drivers were faring on the getaway back home.

"The traffic is terrible on I-95, especially today," said Emerson Hansa, a Centreville resident.

Bumper-to-bumper traffic in slow motion--a driver's worst nightmare-- even after coming off a weekend filled with food and family.

"I think it's ridiculous. I wish it would hurry up and move...trying to get back to school," said one holiday traveler.

"That's the holiday. We knew that it was going to happen, so just be patient," said Andreas Martinez, a North Carolina resident trying to get home to Chapel Hill.

But patience will not come easy, for just in the D.C.-area alone 756,000 people are heading home. In fact, Metro networks in charge of tracking the holiday traffic say I-95, stretching from New York to D.C. is the nation's slowest. And from Springfield to Fredericksburg southbound on I-95 is the nation's fourth slowest stretch.

Then there are folks like holiday traveler Valerie Damos, of Ohio, who brought her canine companion, Max, to make the ride home a lot better.

"Especially bringing my animal with me...it's kind of nice," Damos said.

Even well into the evening hours of Sunday, the mixing bowl, the area around FedEx Field and the beltway are all still heavily congested, making for a long night for a lot of drivers. And, of course, the rain does not help.