<p>I’m envious of your snow! It’s supposed to be in the upper 70s tomorrow where we live and I will have to go out and weed!!! to get the yard ready for Christmas company. That is ridiculous, unfair and not in the spirit of winter! I will also have to turn on the sprinklers and open the windows to air the house out, which means I will have to dust more later in the week.</p>
<p>D has to postpone coming home for one day. 
H will drive up to get her on Monday instead of Sunday. But I guess it’s better safe than having to worry about the drive. I also remember exactly one year ago when he did go up to get her and they were able to get home just as the storm was starting. This one is going to be a lot bigger than last year’s storm though. I just really wish she was home already. When I talked to her tonight, she said that all her friends are still at school, they are all done with their work, and they were all really looking forward to the storm… it does sound like fun!</p>
<p>D is scheduled on a flight from Newark tomorrow (Saturday) evening. I’m hoping she’ll take a chance and try to reschedule to an earlier (tonight even) flight.</p>
<p>D1 had todays’ flight cancelled out of Atlanta (through Charlotte). She got rescheduled on tomorrow’s flight through Phoenix.</p>
<p>D2 is coming home on Sunday from Hartford. She has never experienced a delay or cancellation on her own yet. I’m hoping she doesn’t freak out.</p>
<p>It’s hard to help coordinate all of this from San Diego. Ah…life’s lessons.</p>
<p>Son’s flight out of Baltimore today is cancelled. Nothing until the 23rd out of BWI. I can get him on flight out of National tomorrow afternoon to Louisville and then on to Chicago. How likely is National to be open tomorrow?? This is a change of airline and much smaller planes.</p>
<p>National is only about 50 miles from BWI (approximately). I don’t think the snow amounts will be much different. </p>
<p>Six inches on my driveway by 8am. Light and fluffy.</p>
<p>ocean county, nj here - snowing moderately hard - very gusty winds. My friend whos son goes to Tufts decided to go and get him last night. Drove up last night - arrived at midnight and turned straight around and brought him back to the jersey shore - arrived back here about 6:00 am. He was scheduled to take a spirit flight from Boston Logan today about 11:00 am to Atlantic City and they didn’t want to risk him being in the airport for two days if that flight ws cancelled. And they also didn’t want to get on the road and get him during the snow. So they got him last night and all are home safe.</p>
<p>lololu - what about Amtrak train?</p>
<p>Oldfort, from Chicago he is coming on to Iowa. Amtrak would take him three days with all the connections and then I would have to drive an hour to get him. Once he hits Louisville it looks like weather will not be problem for the next 3-4 days. It is just getting him out of the east coast corridor. AND Amtrak is about $200 more then the new plane ticket ( which by the way is about $50 less then the Delta flights that just got cancelled)</p>
<p>I thought he was just going to Chicago. Winter traveling is just so unpredictable. I am keeping my fingers crossed for all of your kids out there. Keep us posted.</p>
<p>Okay, so I held on to the Delta ticket for right now, but I booked him on a flight out of National tomorrow late afternoon. He flys DC to Louisville, Louisville to Chicago, Chicago home. All little puddlejumpers which worry me but he will be home tomorrow night, only 28 hours late (I hope).</p>
<p>We are supposed to get a large (18-24") amount here in PA but as I look out the window…it better get busy if we are going to have more than just a light dusting.
While I would like to have a white Christmas, it’s more of a pain than anything - especially when the dog will not go off the porch when there is snow on the ground - unless you shovel a spot for him (down to the bare grass).</p>
<p>I hope all DS,DD,DH, all make it home safely and have a happy holiday!</p>
<p>DH was in DC this past week and was at the airport at 2:45 pm yesterday to try to get on an earlier flight home. What a zoo. The weather here was dreadful… cold hard rain all day. Totally fouled up the air travel to/from our city. We had tickets with another couple to see Billy Crystal’s “700 Sundays” last night. Fortunately DS#2 is home and came with me, as DH’s flight didn’t land until the show was ending around 11 last night. At least DH made it home. All Delta flights are cancelled out of Reagan today.</p>
<p>6 inches in eastern VA so far.</p>
<p>More on the way.</p>
<p>pretty heavy snow here in south Jersey.</p>
<p>We got ice with no snow in our part of NC. The sun is shining and the ice is melting this a.m.</p>
<p>Hope everyone’s loved ones get home (eventually). Lived through this last year where it took DS three extra days and two trips to and from apartment to Logan to get home. </p>
<p>A word of advice: if you are at a crazy busy airport, call the airline on your cel or get someone at home to call. Don’t try to rebook while standing in line…while you are standing there the flights are filling up. </p>
<p>When you call, be super, syrupy nice to the agent. They have been yelled at for days. Explain what the issue is as concisely as possible. Toward the end last year I took to telling the agent, “I am a long time American frequent flyer, I understand how difficult your job is right now, I am extremely stressed and trying to get this poor kid home.” </p>
<p>Eventually I got him on a first class seat without paying an additional fare. </p>
<p>The downfall was that now he thinks he should always fly first class.</p>
<p>Once you have sat in the front, it is hard to have to wait for a drink after take off.</p>
<p>^^^^ LOL, the pitfalls of first class seating!!</p>
<p>My DH uased to have elite status with one of the airlines. Last year he was on the phone in the lobby of the airport standing about 5 feet from DS while DS was in line to get his ticket changed. They worked in concert such that when DS got to the counter the changes had been made-- all he had to do was give the agent his ID and ticket and she reissued it for him. Worked like a charm! Unfortunately, DH doesn’t have elite status with that airline any more, so don’t know if they’d still be as helpful as they were then.</p>
<p>Blizzard warnings in our part of Maryland now.</p>