"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:fQmKb.70901$xX.461285@attbi_s02...
... and visibility will be 1000 miles.

In Iowa, in the winter, you can see 1000 miles by standing on a chair.

A cute, but common, misperception. Parts of Iowa are far from flat!

And while Iowa City is not mountainous by any stretch, we live on a hill.

A 4 foot high berm is NOT a hill, Jay.

The hotel, of course, being adjacent to the airport, is on a
flat-as-a-pancake parcel of land just south of some pretty good
ridge-lines.

As above.