On 23 Dec 2006 16:50:45 GMT, Blanche wrote:

Matt Barrow wrote:

My daughter was marooned in Cabo San Lucas with a direct Frontier
flight due in around 5:00 on Friday. They did get in around the same
time today. Me? I think I'd have waited for a wind off the mountains
to melt the snow. Cabo sounds a whale of a lot better this time of
year than Denver, but OTOH a whole lot more expensive too.

out just after 1200 MST. All the local news stations carried the
shot, much like a Shuttle lift-off. But there are people who have
spent 3 nights there already, and may not leave until after Christmas.
The local cities and hotels have a "distressed traveler" plan, put
into planning back in 2003, the last time this happened. Once the
road gets opened, buses get out to the airport and bring the folks
to the hotels. About 3000 people took advantage of this on Friday,
but not quite 2000 stayed at the airport to try and get stand-by
seats.

I'm still astonished at
1) all the people who have 4-wheel drive and think they are invincible and
can travel thru anything
2) and/or have lived here more than 3 winters and don't prepare --
far too many folks don't even have snow shovels!

Kevin's dad didn't even have an ice scraper in his. Of course Deb and
Kevin left theirs at his folks (with chains, shovel, and ice scrapers
- They do live on the second rage back where they had 12 feet of the
stuff two years ago)

Fortunately the sun had already melted the ice on the wind shield and
it wasn't too bad once they were out of the parking lot :-))



Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com