<p>It sounds like there maybe some airport delay due to weather between Denver to Chicago. Parents may want to make sure their kids pack extra clothes in their carry on just in case if they should get delayed at an airport, have cash and credit card on hand for food or unexpected hotel stay. Kids who are driving home probably should have extra blanket and snow boots in the trunk, and have their phone fully charged. </p>
<p>We are in a sunny area and D1 is flying down tomorrow for a week, we also have some family coming for a visit, so we are all excited. I hope everyone’s kids arrive home safely and have a great holiday.</p>
<p>I’ve been watching the weather and am desperately trying to get my daughter to leave earlier than she is! She leaves from O’Hare to a little local NY airport in the late afternoon on Wednesday with expected rain. This means that between the extra security, the weather, and her flights low priority (compared to flights heading to another major airport), and her late departure time I’m having stress that she won’t even make it home until Thursday!</p>
<p>My husband thinks I’m nuts, but who’s going to be most upset if her flight is canceled or very delayed? He is! If he would just help, the two of us might be able to convince her to miss her class and come home early Wednesday morning and fly into LaGuardia for a higher priority flight. We might even be able to get her a first class seat which would give her separate lines that would be shorter and, hopefully, kinder. I’m making myself so stressed over this. I don’t want her coming into LaGuardia at 6 on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving because traffic will be unbearable and it will take hours to get her home from the airport. We have 24 people coming for Thursday and Friday, I can’t lose Wednesday evening getting her at the airport. If she comes in earlier (11AM maybe?) I would have no problem running down to pick her up, it would take around 2 hours round trip.</p>
<p>When I was in college we got the whole week off, I wish she did! We’re a very big Thanksgiving family plus it’s her birthday this year. It will all work out (keep repeating).</p>
<p>D1 is skipping her classes Mon and Tue. She is senior now, and she has done it every year. Since most of her classes only meet 2 or 3 times a week, she is really only missing one lecture for each class. For us, it’s just not worth the stress, and airfare is usually cheaper if she is not traveling on Wed.</p>
<p>Freshman ds is flying home Monday evening and through Denver rather than Chicago. I actually thought this all through when I booked this flight months ago, being paranoid and this being the first time he’s flying home in the winter. I didn’t know what to expect. He has a final Sunday, but I didn’t want to rush him and have him packing when he should be studying. He’ll be home for six weeks so it’ll be a reasonably big job.</p>
<p>We’re driving from the east coast to Ohio on Wednesday. We’re heading into “lake effect snow” areas so we’re hoping the moisture stays west until we are tucked in bed sometime in the wee hours (1 a.m ) on Thanksgiving day.</p>
<p>No one here is flying anywhere…until Christmas.</p>
<p>My D2’s high school gets the entire week off. So we’re going to be cozily ensconced with extended family at our lake house with plenty of food and fire wood when the “norther” blows in. They are predicting high’s in the 40’s for us in Texas (low Wed. night in the 20’s). That’s pretty chilly for Texas, but no travel impact.</p>
<p>I hope all your kids get in safely in time to enjoy the holiday.</p>
<p>This is the first Thanksgiving we will not be home. Instead of the kids coming home like previous years, we will be going to them. Both kids are in the same area, first time since DD left home for college 12 years ago.</p>
<p>I remember all the nasty coast to coast flights both kids endured Thanksgiving and Christmas all these years. They have been delayed/missed flights due to bad weather, especially in ORD and ATL so I gave up having them on connecting flights and paid more $$ for them to fly nonstop. Both did not like the idea of missing any classes, that meant leaving on Wed PM and back on Sun AM. Ugh.</p>
<p>I just bought tickets for them to come home for Christmas, leaving Dec. 23rd Wed. PM, probably the busiest day for flying. They are working now, don’t want to take too many days off.</p>
<p>I’m glad I didn’t book my D’s flight until Tues at noon. She has a huge exam on Monday. Of course the rest of the campus is done with tests and it’s a huge party weekend. Making things hard to study and she’s exhausted. I’m praying this test goes well and then I will have to pray that she gets home and back to school in one piece.</p>
<p>Flying through O’Hare and into lake effect land. </p>
<p>I’m more worried about winter break though. She was unlucky enough to pull the last exam and won’t be able to get home until the 23rd of December. I will be on pins and needles until she get here safe and sound.</p>
<p>Oh, that’s just great. D will be driving with her BU cousin from New Haven to Ohio so they can spend Turkey Day with a couple of “seemingly non-random boys”. Can you say “pins and needles”? Yeah. I think you can. Crap.</p>
<p>My sister lives in Lake County, Ohio. Most of the time you can avoid the lake effect snow until you get very close to her house. It can get bad around her house but will be fine 10 miles away. They do a pretty good job with snow removal also. I’ve traveled east from her house and as long as I avoid driving right along the lake I’m good.</p>
<p>Well, the good news about early weather predicitons is that they usually change. I’ve got one flying home Weds morning. We’re south though,so hopefully ok (if the TSA screening protest doesnt happen )</p>
<p>I just checked the weather for Erie, Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo and Cleveland…weather on Wednesday is supposed to be sunny. Possible snow showers but not until Thursday NIGHT. Weather over the weekend, fine but cold.</p>
<p>NOW…west of there…Chicago etc. I didn’t check.</p>
<p>Let’s all keep our fingers REAL crossed that the weather does NOT take a turn for the worse!!!</p>
<p>Having been right at that location on a Wednesday night pre-Thanksgiving, I agree the traffic was outrageous. It took us 5 hours to get from there to Philadelphia when we anticipated 2. </p>
<p>If I were in your shoes, I think I’d hire one relative - such as a college or grad student, if there’s a cousin in your general region. PAY him/her to do the airport pickup, no matter how long it takes. No way can a hostess lose the entire evening before a big family dinner like that. </p>
<p>Adding: I hope I’m ok flying on Thanksgiving day, Thursday afternoon to New England. In my family-of-origin, we have our T-day meal on Saturday night. This allows for us to get invited to other meals on Thursday, amounting to about 10,000 calories apiece. It’s also a solution for families where two divorced parents each want their children to join them for a Thanskgiving meal. Not for everyone, obviously, but for us it’s a plan.</p>
and D1 is flying down tomorrow for a week, we also have some family coming for a visit, so we are all excited. I hope everyone’s kids arrive home safely and have a great holiday.</p>
D will be driving with her BU cousin from New Haven to Ohio so they can spend Turkey Day with a couple of “seemingly non-random boys”. Can you say “pins and needles”? Yeah. I think you can. Crap.</p>
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