FINALLY! Brown/Harvard

Okay everybody! Drive/fly safely and I'll see y'alls tonight!
Leaving soon for the airport
I really need to find me a bouncy excited smiley...

Yesterday's forecast was calling for snow in Boston on Saturday. Now it says partly cloudy with high of 17 degrees Fahrenheit and wind-chill of +2 at 6pm.

To Al D. Appreciate your daily comments. Leaving for Prov. by way of Uncasville in 10 min. from N.H. Hope to see all tonight unless an unlikely HUGE winning streak occurs at Mohegan. Just kidding. Will be seeing a lot of glass in sect.P row 4.

Woohoo!!! Heat wave down south in Boston!!! It's currently 0 in Burlington, will get down to -20 or -25 tonight, and won't crack 0 tomorrow. And that's without windchill.

I'm leaving in 10 min. See you folks in Providence.

ok, she's exaggerating just a bit. This is the actual forecast for the weekend. Subtract the current wind speed from the current temp. and you get a pretty accurate portrayal of the windchill:

Friday : Sunshine along with a few clouds. High 21F. Winds W at 10 to 20 mph.

Friday night : Partly cloudy skies early will give way to cloudy skies late. Wind chills may approach -10F. Low around 5F. Winds WNW at 10 to 20 mph.

Saturday : Partly to mostly cloudy. Wind chills approaching -10F. High 17F. Winds NNW at 10 to 20 mph.

Saturday night : A few clouds. Wind chills may approach -15F. Low 3F. Winds NNW at 10 to 20 mph.

As a postscript to the weather talk, I'm told that these past Friday and Saturday nights were among the coldest on record for Boston. Or something to that effect, anyway. It was cold.

FYI - I'm not sure if any of our DC fans made it home. Judy is stuck in Providence indefinitely. Apparently nothing is moving in or out of DC and people aren't permitted on the streets at all. It is amazing how 2 feet of snow in an area where snow is infrequent but still present from time to time can cause this much havoc.

When I lived in NC we had one November snowfall of 11 inches. It was way, way too much for the locals -- they had to borrow snow removal equipment... from Virginia (I wish I had been in on that phone call. "Hi gov'nuh. How's the wife? Great, great. Hey, the reason I called..." The whole state shut down for more than a week -- I've never seen such happy children.

Good luck getting home, Judy.

11 hours later...slow trekking on amtrak and barely running metros...I'm home...but my car is still buried @ bwi... so I think the plan is to dig my car out on Friday and drive up to Ithaca...

anyone else have any fun travel stories from the weekend?

Yeah, 4:07 from New Haven was much, much better than 9:11 doing the same route on my last attempt

No. I have absolutely no fun travel stories from the weekend. And neither does Lowell.

Beeeej

Well, I can walk home from Bright, but some of my friends still haven't made it home to DC. (and the one who was flying to Charlotte via DC got rerouted through Atlanta just in time for the Charlotte airport to close -- I suspect he had a fun night in the airport).

anyone else have any fun travel stories from the weekend?

Not me, but my brother was supposed to fly home from Boston to Columbia, S.C., by way of D.C., on Sunday morning. He's still in Boston.

Arrrgg. I don't live in New Haven anymore. I live in Meriden.

Well, for the folks from DC, Dulles has 1 runway open, National and BWI are both still closed...though rumor has it National may open tomorrow morning. It's stopped snowing down here but now the idiots have come out on the roads...
Amtrak is doing the Boston to DC run but my trip from Providence to Union Station took about 8 hours and really crowded until you're past Baltimore, metro only runs underground and there's only one train per hour...and the federal government is still shut down tomorrow...They're hoping to get everyone back to work on Wednesday...
good luck getting home!

judy '01 wrote:

anyone else have any fun travel stories from the weekend?

I had a rather uneventful drive to Dallas, where my cousin's team (Alaska Bulldogs) came in second (out of seven) in the Midget B Division at the DJHA Presidents' Day Roundup.

But glad to hear people are making their way (hopefully safely) home.

as a post script to this whole weekend...I think I lost my driver's license at Brown...

Nope, don't have *fun* travel stories to share from this past weekend, either. PVD to Phoenix was kind of hellish on Southwest, because of two boys in front of us who could not stop fighting/touching/arguing with each other, and an ineffective aunt who failed miserably to broker peace between them. (Finally, a non-related passenger said to the young woman, why don't you sit between them? Duh!)

But, glad to say that we made it home to the Bay Area safe and sound on Sunday night, without any delay. We made the right decision not to take the Southwest offer for the bump ($200+one-way fare, all in voucher). If we did, we'd probably get stuck in PVD even today