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November 25, 2004

It took forever...

but I finally made it to Rochester MN a few minutes after Midnight last night (Central Time). After getting to O'Hare from Indianapolis, I found out that they cancelled the flight to Rochester as well as many other flights. It seems like they had a hard time with less than an inch of wet, slushy snow! I did not want to spend the night at O'Hare, so I started looking for a flight out, either on to Rochester or back to Indianapolis. Finally I got one on to Rochester, but it turned out to be a comedy of errors.

When we boarded and got seated, they announced that we needed to have some fuel offloaded because we were over gross. They also said we needed to be de-iced. Fine. It took three hours to do both those tasks. Meanwhile we sat in the tube, packed in like sardines on that Embraer Regional Jet. But, despite the delays, everyone was in a "Holiday" mood and they all took it in stride.

The Review


The snow caused delays as long as three hours Wednesday at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, and nearly 50 flights were canceled outright. More than 300 people stayed the night at the airport, Department of Aviation spokeswoman Annette Martinez said.


I didn't think there was all that much snow.

Posted by nezbitthecat at November 25, 2004 03:26 PM

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