48+ hours since i've been home!

major snow storm in new york -- closed down jfk for most of the evening on christmas. uh .... we got 5 diverted aircraft! not pretty. what we thought were going to be gas and go's ended up being gas and try to go but let's just hang out in the airport and stay stuck for a few hours!!! one of the flights actually had to terminate in dulles because the crew became 'illegal'. that is, they exceeded their allotted amount of time for flying as per faa blah blah blah. sigh. imagine trying to deal with a planeload of people in washington-dulles who were originally scheduled to fly from burlington, vt to jfk. the scheduled flight is only supposed to be less than 45 minutes!!! "good evening folks! welcome to washington-dulles! we're about 5+ hours driving distance away and you will have to stay overnight." moreso NOT pretty. we handled the drama pretty well. just a lot of frustrated people on christmas day. weather is amazing, isn't it?

we didn't end the evening until about 2am. bill put a lot of us up at a local hotel and i literally didn't get up until about an hour before i had to report back to work. i was broke down tired -- no kidding. of course we had to go through the after effects of the cancellations from the day before. our originally scheduled last flight of the evening ended up being the FIRST one out tonight. the rest you can figure out yourself. i had to ask for special permission to leave by 10:30pm so i could catch the last metro train home. (i'm driving the big BOAT ya know!)