<p>JASMOM - it appears that flights are definitely landing - tho some late by up to 3 hours - so I will bet your D’s flight will be arriving at some point. :)</p>
<p>D and I were originally supposed to attend an event at American University today. However, we received forecasts of the yesterday’s/today’s storm as early as Wedsnesday/Thursday so luckily I was able to reschedule us for their “Freshman Day” event, which took place last Friday, which happened to have the best weather conditions of the last five days. I’m in southeast PA and, considering what a mess it was early this morning, I’m glad not have had to drive anywhere back then(although it’s much better now, albeit quite blustery).</p>
<p>^I live three blocks from AU, and most of the neighborhood was without electricity for several hours this morning (not sure about the actual campus, though). It’s back now, and the weather is better, but it’s still freezing, windy, and generally miserable. You definitely made the right decision. :p</p>
<p>My guy is in Hanover NH - talked to him a while ago - snow turned to rain thru the nite - so only water around and things back to normal up there:)</p>
<p>Actually international flights do better for on-time issues than flights within the US, at least at EWR (Newark)…this is anecdotal but quite consistent with our many experiences. She should be fine. Some of the trains from EWR are not operating on a full schedule, and some of the regional roads are a challenge. Good luck. What time does she arrive?</p>
<p>It looks like the weather is going to continue - seems this thing is curling back around and will present itself again - tho we are clear in eastern MA right now - it looks as tho we are gonna get more very wet weather later tonite - uugghhh</p>
<p>I’m watching the clock. Arrival in Newark should be in the next 5-10 minutes (according to the estimated rather than scheduled arrival time). That’s encouraging re: international flights. I’m hoping she’ll call me when they touch down. Then, of course, comes the bus ride home.</p>
<p>OK!!! Website shows flight has arrived–only 24 minutes later than estimated at it’s take-off. Newark is indeed landing planes. Hurrah!</p>
<p>You guys had it easy, I couldn’t even leave my house. I live in the Hudson Valley, and of the three routes to my house 2.5 are flooded.</p>
<p>jasmom: they tell them they cannot use their cell phone’s until they clear customs, but sometimes they tell them to go ahead before they leave the plane. I guess they want no funny business about immigration, etc. So if she does not call, do not panic. Okay?!? It could be an hour after she lands.</p>
<p>AWESOME JASMOM!!! I can ‘‘see’’ the happiness in your words :):):)</p>
<p>mum07:
Looks like Green Airport is back up and running. They do have back-ups and trying to reschedule people onto flights that got canceled. The 6:00 news actually said that they had lots of flights leave during the day today that were empty - they just needed to get the planes to their next destinations. Good luck tomorrow - you should be OK, but just check before leaving for the airport.</p>
<p>Also, anyone in the NYC/Queens/Long Island neighborhood - D and I are driving into NY tomorrow (Tuesday) for a few days. Driving into Queens tomorrow, Manhattan all day Wednesday, and Hofstra on Thursday. Are there any travel warnings I should be aware of?? Just wish this darn weather would warm up!!</p>
<p>cameliasinensis: Wow, I’m sorry to hear that it was still so bad down in DC, today. Hope the area’s back up and running, by now. Friday did work out well and she was able to enroll then, as opposed to waiting until today or tomorrow.</p>
<p>It’s so hard to believe there are so many places with such terrible weather right now. My son is at the Admitted Students program now at Rice right now and it’s sunny with highs in the mid-70’s!</p>
<p>DD flew to Boston, through IAH, this morning. Her flight was delayed by about 1.5 hours. She then took Amtrak to New Haven, delayed by about 1/2 an hour, and arrived safely for Yale Bulldog Days. I think that she was very fortunate to not have encountered more delays as a result of the weather.</p>
<p>We were in Florida on Sunday with a group of hs’ers from across the country. My flight was supposed to be at 6pmish, with other families coming back to SFO on a 3pm flight. Well, I got to the airport with them all, and put my D and myself on standby, what the heck.</p>
<p>Well, our standby flight, which was at 4, left before the groups flight, we got another standby in dallas with about 30 seconds to spare…getting home by 8</p>
<p>Our poor friends were STILL in Florida or at other airports as of this morning…some are still stuck…and they were supposed to arrive 5 hours before us…</p>
<p>Best thing we did was not check any lugguge, one lady had her bags stolen from baggage claim, though no one told them the luggage was there, along with about 8 other people on the same flight</p>
<p>We lucked out. We flew out of NY at 6am before it got really bad. (Thank goodness I’m paranoid about delayed flights.) We seemed to have flown over the worst of the weather. It drizzled and rained off and on Sunday, today was cold and windy. That flight was delayed, but not by too much. Some of the highways were still flooded. Luckily my husband warned me and I took the right route home.</p>
<p>The news media in now over-hyping the weather just like they do everything else. If you listened to them over the weekened and fully believed what they had to say, you should have built an ark and start loading it up 2 X 2.</p>
<p>alliesmom
dont know if you’ve left yet,Im right near Hofstra.Weather is okay and projected to get better over the next few days,but still temps lower than 60.sunny by Thurs/Fri
I used to work at Hofstra (waaay back) Hope you like it there,it doesnt get much discussion here at CC</p>
<p>I’m in southern NH and schools are closed for the second day due to flooding. Many, many roads are total washouts.</p>