Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Stuck in Atlanta?





It's tragic how multiple tornadoes have devastated the lives of so many yesterday. At this point, they believe the storms have taken 52 lives and hundreds are hurt and a ton of property damage has occurred. I'm in Atlanta, which did not get any tornadoes (they rarely do here) but the weather is nasty. My flight home tonight was supposed to leave at 7:08 pm. I got three updates from UAL, each one about a half hour after the previous. The first one told me that my flight was instead going to leave at 8:57 pm. The second told me my flight is going to leave on time and the third told me that my flight is leaving at 9:10. All this before 1:15 pm today! That means they are really backed up and I don't know if I'm going to get out of here tonight. I'm sitting in the hotel lobby, already checked out, waiting on some Chinese food to be delivered for lunch, and catching up on work. I'm yawning a lot because I haven't slept enough and all I can think of right now is a warm bed in which to sleep!

2 comments:

Katya said...

So did you make it out? This airport is so busy it gets backed up quickly if there is bad weather anywhere in the country...

Joe Ganci said...

I did, I did! I got home only about 2.5 hours late, not bad considering. The problem was very windy conditions in DC. Landing was interesting as our smallish plane was being rocked quite a bit before we touched down on Earth. Our pilot was a pro - it was a smooth landing in the end. Now I stay home for two days before leaving for Rochester, Minnesota to teach at the Mayo Clinic!