Snowbound
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Well I was supposed to fly back to San Diego today at noon but my flight was cancelled due to a snow storm that blazed in. The flight was first delayed until 2PM, then as the snow picked up, it was cancelled all together. It was already so bad out that I couldn’t get back to the seacoast. I quickly booked a hotel and took a last minute shuttle to the Sleep Inn off the highway. It took about 35 minutes to go 5 miles and we passed 2 accidents.
So now I’m snowbound in this little hotel, waiting out the storm. I’m scheduled to go back out again at 9AM. The storm should pass within the next couple hours, so hopefully by morning things will be clear enough.
I have high speed wireless internet and Domino’s Pizza is still delivering. I guess it could be worse.
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On October 6th, 2006 at 7:57 pm
[...] ME!! That’s what! History repeats itself. Here I am stuck overnight, AGAIN, in Manchester, NH sitting in a hotel room eating pizza. After waiting for almost 4 hours at the airport today, my flight back to San Diego was cancelled. The VERY last time I was in NH, I flew through Manchester and my flight was cancelled then as well, although last time it was because of a spring blizzard. I blogged about it then too (click here to read Snowbound) Today the reason was a combination of factors. First, the flight was delayed for a maintenance issue, which ended up being nothing. Then it was delayed due to air traffic congestion in Atlanta, which is where I was connecting through. THEN, the delay lasted so long that the flight crew went past their allowable flight time and couldn’t continue on. The next available flight was at 7 am so rather then have my mother drive the 2 hours roundtrip to the airport and back, I just decided to use the hotel voucher from the airline and stay local. So here I am wasting a perfectly good Friday night sitting in a hotel eating crappy pizza and watching CNN… THANKS Delta Airlines! [...]