Bad Month for Flying

[Jay Honeck]

(AP) CHICAGO - Dense fog and a low cloud ceiling forced airlines to
cancel more than 200 flights at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport
on Friday at the start of the busy holiday travel season.

Travelers also encountered weather-related delays at airports in the
New York City area.
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We had seven long-term guests at the hotel (who all work for the same
company) trying to get home for Christmas yesterday. ALL of their
flights were cancelled.

Even though this article only talks about Chicago and New York, the
effect of this widespread fog has rippled throughout the national
airspace. The airline reps were telling our people that they were
still trying to move people out of airports for flights that were
cancelled on Thursday!

From a GA standpoint, I sure wouldn't want to own an FBO. NOTHING is
moving around here. (And now we've got a Winter Storm Warning for
tonight...)

Whoo-eee. I can hardly wait for winter.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

[Bertie the Bunyip[_19_]]

No it isn't. I've done plenty.


Bertie

[Larry Dighera]

On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 04:53:55 -0800 (PST), Jay Honeck
> wrote in
>:

>(AP) CHICAGO - Dense fog and a low cloud ceiling forced airlines to
>cancel more than 200 flights at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport
>on Friday ...

I'm surprised they didn't blame GA. :-(

[Mxsmanic]

Jay Honeck writes:

> (AP) CHICAGO - Dense fog and a low cloud ceiling forced airlines to
> cancel more than 200 flights at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport
> on Friday at the start of the busy holiday travel season.
>
> Travelers also encountered weather-related delays at airports in the
> New York City area.
> ************************************************** ***********
> We had seven long-term guests at the hotel (who all work for the same
> company) trying to get home for Christmas yesterday. ALL of their
> flights were cancelled.
>
> Even though this article only talks about Chicago and New York, the
> effect of this widespread fog has rippled throughout the national
> airspace. The airline reps were telling our people that they were
> still trying to move people out of airports for flights that were
> cancelled on Thursday!
>
> From a GA standpoint, I sure wouldn't want to own an FBO. NOTHING is
> moving around here. (And now we've got a Winter Storm Warning for
> tonight...)

Sounds like the skies of VATSIM will be busy tonight.

> Whoo-eee. I can hardly wait for winter.

Winter started six hours ago.

[Bertie the Bunyip[_19_]]

Mxsmanic > wrote in
:

> Jay Honeck writes:
>
>> (AP) CHICAGO - Dense fog and a low cloud ceiling forced airlines to
>> cancel more than 200 flights at Chicago's O'Hare International
Airport
>> on Friday at the start of the busy holiday travel season.
>>
>> Travelers also encountered weather-related delays at airports in the
>> New York City area.
>> ************************************************** ***********
>> We had seven long-term guests at the hotel (who all work for the same
>> company) trying to get home for Christmas yesterday. ALL of their
>> flights were cancelled.
>>
>> Even though this article only talks about Chicago and New York, the
>> effect of this widespread fog has rippled throughout the national
>> airspace. The airline reps were telling our people that they were
>> still trying to move people out of airports for flights that were
>> cancelled on Thursday!
>>
>> From a GA standpoint, I sure wouldn't want to own an FBO. NOTHING is
>> moving around here. (And now we've got a Winter Storm Warning for
>> tonight...)
>
> Sounds like the skies of VATSIM will be busy tonight.
>
>> Whoo-eee. I can hardly wait for winter.
>
> Winter started six hours ago.
>



Nope, wrong again.


Bertie

[kontiki]

Jay Honeck wrote:
>
> From a GA standpoint, I sure wouldn't want to own an FBO. NOTHING is
> moving around here. (And now we've got a Winter Storm Warning for
> tonight...)
>
> Whoo-eee. I can hardly wait for winter.
> --

I guess we need more global warming.

[Jay Honeck]

> I guess we need more global warming.

If I could increase the ambient temperature of Iowa about 35 degrees
right now, I would burn every hydrocarbon in the state...

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

[Jim Macklin]

On the TV a minute ago, the crawl said McConnell AFB was closed, except fore
"war emergency."

Tomorrow it is supposed to get above freezing. Today, the wind and snow
reduced visibility to zero. I was out driving and at times, could not see
the hood of my car.

The Northeast is going to get it.


"Jay Honeck" > wrote in message
...
|> I guess we need more global warming.
|
| If I could increase the ambient temperature of Iowa about 35 degrees
| right now, I would burn every hydrocarbon in the state...
|
| ;-)
| --
| Jay Honeck
| Iowa City, IA
| Pathfinder N56993
| www.AlexisParkInn.com
| "Your Aviation Destination"

[Jay Honeck]

> Tomorrow it is supposed to get above freezing. *Today, the wind and snow
> reduced visibility to zero. *I was out driving and at times, could not see
> the hood of my car.
>
> The Northeast is going to get it.

We got hit pretty good. 9 degrees, blizzard conditions here last
night. We could've sold twice as many suites, if only we had 'em.

This morning, blinding sunshine on white snow, high winds, lotsa
drifting. Been shoveling since 5 AM; lots more to go. Got a 100'
long, 3' deep drift in front of our hangar.

Welcome to winter!

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

[Dylan Smith]

On 2007-12-22, Jay Honeck > wrote:
> Whoo-eee. I can hardly wait for winter.

Guess our winter starts earlier than yours, the Met. Office here defines
winter as December 1st to the end of Feb. So winter's already been going
a while here. Still hasn't got below freezing yet, and is about 10
celcius today (upper 40s F, I guess)... and we're further north than the
entire continental US :-)

--
From the sunny Isle of Man.
Yes, the Reply-To email address is valid.

[Jay Honeck]

> Guess our winter starts earlier than yours, the Met. Office here defines
> winter as December 1st to the end of Feb. So winter's already been going
> a while here. Still hasn't got below freezing yet, and is about 10
> celcius today (upper 40s F, I guess)... and we're further north than the
> entire continental US :-)

Yep, meteorological winter (really, the only one that counts) starts
on December 1st. But just TRY to get everyone to agree to change the
date on the calendar! (Look how hard it was to get any movement at
all on "Daylight Savings Time"...)

Although it hasn't been above freezing there, I'll bet the dampness of
living on an island is impressive. Having grown up on the shores of
Lake Michigan, I do *not* miss that weather. (I swear, 40 degrees
there felt as cold as 20 degrees in bone-dry Iowa...)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

[Bertie the Bunyip[_19_]]

Jay Honeck > wrote in news:a2837a78-4c1a-495b-a218-
:

>> Guess our winter starts earlier than yours, the Met. Office here defines
>> winter as December 1st to the end of Feb. So winter's already been going
>> a while here. Still hasn't got below freezing yet, and is about 10
>> celcius today (upper 40s F, I guess)... and we're further north than the
>> entire continental US :-)
>
> Yep, meteorological winter (really, the only one that counts) starts
> on December 1st. But just TRY to get everyone to agree to change the
> date on the calendar!

You just can't help yourself, can you?

Bertie

[Jay Honeck]

> Well... yesterday,I went flying for the first time since returning from
> AirVenture '07.

No way! How'd *that* happen? (Mary says to give you crap, and asks
that I remind her not to fly with *you* into OSH '08... :-)

> The past two weeks, central Ohio has been unscathed by severe weather.
> Each of the four big storms that hit the Plains have passed north into
> Michigan or south then east into Pennsylvania.
> It's good to be a Buckeye! :-))

You've been lucky. Montblack and I were discussing that this winter
is starting out JUST like the record winter of '77-'78, with ice/snow
every couple-three days. We've already got 12' piles in the parking
lots!

(For those of you who remember the sweltering heat at our fly-in pool
party(s), picture the pool covered and coated in ice and snow, with
that huge cover depressed over 5 feet in the middle, and 3' drifts all
'round. It's hard to believe it ever gets so hot here that you can't
bear it...)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

[Dylan Smith]

On 2007-12-24, Jay Honeck > wrote:
> Although it hasn't been above freezing there, I'll bet the dampness of
> living on an island is impressive. Having grown up on the shores of
> Lake Michigan, I do *not* miss that weather. (I swear, 40 degrees
> there felt as cold as 20 degrees in bone-dry Iowa...)

Yes... when the wind blows, it feels bloody cold. We call it a 'lazy
wind' - it's so lazy, it can't be bothered to blow around you, it blows
right through you instead, chilling you to the core!

--
From the sunny Isle of Man.
Yes, the Reply-To email address is valid.

[Jay Honeck]

> Yes... when the wind blows, it feels bloody cold. We call it a 'lazy
> wind' - it's so lazy, it can't be bothered to blow around you, it blows
> right through you instead, chilling you to the core!

In Milwaukee this wind was usually combined with a bone-chilling mist,
to ensure complete hypothermia...

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

[Bertie the Bunyip[_19_]]

Jay Honeck > wrote in news:1473eb43-df92-4388-83e8-
:

>> Yes... when the wind blows, it feels bloody cold. We call it a 'lazy
>> wind' - it's so lazy, it can't be bothered to blow around you, it blows
>> right through you instead, chilling you to the core!
>
> In Milwaukee this wind was usually combined with a bone-chilling mist,
> to ensure complete hypothermia...

So, you died of hypothermia?


Tell us about it. You don;'t often gt this POV



Bertie