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June 12, 2005
Midwest SuperCells Suck
Damn. Here I am at Kansas City International Airport waiting for my plane that will take me to Chicago where I switch to a different plane that will take me to Philadelphia.
My plane was diverted to Omaha due to the lovely spring weather - lots of lightening, thunder and lots and lots of rain.
I will mostly likely miss my connecting flight. That means that I will have to pay for my hotel stay for the night in Philadelphia because it is past 6:00 pm there - too late to call and change my reservation.
So.
Here I wait - what will Southwest do with me? I love Southwest, as you know, and this weather is surely not their fault.
But damn, everything on earth appears to be keeping me away from Philadelphia.
Got sick last week, before me flight, so I stayed home- and this week - the weather got sick.
There appears to be a river of water on the taxiway outside the terminal. It kinda reminds me of some kind of Alfred Hitchcock movie - only I don't know which one.
It's always something!
Posted by Beth at June 12, 2005 5:26 PM
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Hey, at least it's a modern stoutly built (by Boeing, right?) jet airliner, *and* they're making you wait on the ground. You should be happy to wait on the ground in that kind of situation.
Read about the wreck of the rigid airship USS Shenandoah, how she broke up over Ohio in the '20s during an unnecessary publicity trip.
Reminds me of a bulletin-board story I read somewhere:
Posted on bulletin board of attack squadron in Viet-Nam, mid-sixties: There is no reason to fly through thunderstorms in peacetime.
Posted just below that: There is no reason to fly through thunderstorms, period.
Posted by: Justthisguy at June 12, 2005 10:10 PM