Hi all -- another addition of the weekly thread. Crazy week for me.
I had to travel to Chicago mid-week, just in time to have my Thursday morning return flight to DC canceled due to a massive east coast snowstorm – this was a significant issue as a) my home doesn't always handle snow that well (meaning that I like to be there to operate pumps to prevent water damage), and b) I was scheduled to close on the refinancing of my mortgage on Friday morning (and my rate lock-in would expire, and I'd lose my super-spiffy new rate of 3.875 %, if I didn't close on Friday).
Short version is: flight after flight got canceled on Wednesday night – I'd be woken up by an automated call from the airline, then spend 30-40 minutes on the phone/net rebooking, then sleep for about 15 minutes before being woken again for another cancellation. By 3:30 am local time, my flights (I was parallel booking on two airlines, since all penalties and change fees were waived) had both been pushed back to around 1 pm, and I was fairly certain neither of those would be leaving either. So I bought a ticket on the 7:30 am flight to Richmond, VA (about 100 miles from DC), figuring that once I was back on the east coast, I'd have expanded options for getting home (and I'd cancel the other fights upon landing in Richmond). Then I headed to O'Hare, got through security, and decided to kill the few hours before my Richmond flight by camping out at different gates to see if anything would work. As it turned out, I managed to get off of standby onto a 6:00 am flight to Dulles Airport, which I believe is one of the only flights from Chicago that made it to the greater Washington area that day. One 90 minute flight plus 70 minute cab ride and I was home. Exhausted, but home.
All of which is a long winded explanation for why my training schedule was substantially disrupted this week. :)
Anyone else have misadventures, etc, due to the weather?
I'll be back to post my full weekly training report later; in the meantime, post 'em up.