SubscribeIt’s going to be an interesting day of travel. Two feet of snow last weekend followed by another two feet last night.
Everyone in Philadelphia that could worked from home yesterday. That was working out OK for us until power cut out for our neighborhood late afternoon. This has lead me to a new conclusion… oil heat might be nice, but with electric thermostats, it’s not as convenient to store all your fuel in your basement when the power cuts out.
I’ll have to figure out if there’s a manual override when the power returns… no luck trying in the dark… and the cold. Fortunately, we had already pulled out our camping gear in preparation for our trip, so plenty of cold-weather, no-power gear readily on hand.
So Philadelphia airport still hasn’t finished clearing their runways. Our flight isn’t cancelled, but it is delayed 2 hours, and the plane that has to leave before ours is still covered with snow.
There’s a small army of zamboni-like snow plows on the runway and they’re still kicking up impressive amounts of snow and ice as they move through.
Granted, the iPhone doesn’t really capture the look because of all the glare, but here are a few shots out our window.
Nope… crap… flight just got cancelled.
A quick update… USAir customer service is a team of saints. There were a lot of very tired and angry people across all the airports of the eastern US – and still the people I spoke to were cheery, friendly and sounded like they genuinely wanted to help.
And I believe they really do want to help – in my most recent call (which, incidentally was successful for saving our vacation and the first call for this rep today), I was still fumbling for my “End Call” button and apparently the rep hadn’t realized that I was still on and I heard her say to herself “Well… off to a good start…”
Those guys are really doing their best to help in this weather… just remember that when you call in for help, kids… it makes them happy when they can help you, but sometimes, they just can’t.
Thank you, USAir.