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[phoenixbrd]

Employees need to return to work.  Taxpayers have shouldered the expense of billions of dollars to airlines. This crisis impacts so many families as well as those traveling.

[RespectLife]

@Goodie2shoes 

My BIL had covid last year.

Got 2 shots and a booster

Has Covid AGAIN!  He did not travel!  Got it at work, masks and all.

He is just as sick as he was the first time b4 the shots were invented.

[RespectLife]

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@CAcableGirl2 wrote:

@Goodie2shoes   I have personal experience from today!  9 hours driving to and from the same airport all done today. 

I left early this morning to take my son and his family to the airport about 1.5 hours away.  Dropped them off and all was well, drove back to where I live and went back to work for 2 hours, and then got the call that their first flight was delayed so they missed their connecting flight (with no more flights today), so back I go to the airport to pick them up.    

Another 3 hours on the road (to and from the same airport) for trip #2, and then back to work to finish off the work day with a few more hours of work before heading home, and now I'm here at home killing time until 8:30-9pm when we'll head back to the same airport (1.5 hours one-way) for trip #3 to have them board for their non-stop flight around midnight. 

The only good news is that there should be less traffic then the 2 earlier trips today because it's so late.

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@CAcableGirl2 

Gosh!  Same thing happened to my DD last night....flight from Balitmore delayed 3 hrs before it got here due to weather.

She would have never made her connection in Denver.

So back we went also...BUT we are only an easy 20 min drive to our airport.

I really feel for you with that ride!

She has booked for Saturday to try again.

[RespectLife]

@Carmie 

Wanting to be with your family for Christmas  is not stupid nor is it crazy.

This virus will be with us for a very, very long time.  We have to learn to 'live' with it.

My family has decided we will not hide in fear.

Your post was very harsh.  We all make our OWN decisions on how to live...or not live.

@Pook 

I have to disagree with you on this one.  It is not an obsession to want to be with your family for the holidays.  It is making cherished memories as none of us know what the future will hold.

Travel delays before Vid were just as common.  Weather in the East is so unpredictable!

98% recover, we have therapies now, we have no complicated medical issues....as I said....I will not hide, I will not live in fear.

I will follow the rules and be careful.

I know of TONS of people who travelled AND got together for Thanksgiving, Christmas AND New Years.

[Buffalogal47]

One thing I learned from living in Buffalo, NY for 47 years was to get off of limited-access highways during a snowstorm and take local roads. That way if you get stuck somewhere there are always places to take shelter. Even the NY State Dept. of Transportation figured that out and installed gates on entrances in areas of I-90 and some of the state highways that are in the snowbelt. During heavy snowstorms, all traffic is diverted off the roads  to local streets and no new traffic can enter.

The I-95 corridor around the Washington DC area is a mess normally no matter what time of year. I can't even imagine the nightmare it must have been this time.

As for flying, I won't get on an airplane until masks are no longer required in the airport. I probably could handle wearing one for the actual flight, but I can't stand those nasty germ-laden face diapers and the idea of having to wear one, possibly for hours due to flight delays and cancelltions,  in a crowded, hot airport is not something I would be able to do. If I have to travel, I will drive.

[RespectLife]

@Buffalogal47 

Hi Buffalo Gal!

another lifelong Buffalonian here!

I guess we have lived through so many storms, we know how to handle it.

GO BILLS !!

[Buffalogal47]

@RespectLife  Hi! I don't want to disillusion you, but I wasn't born in Buffalo  although I lived there most of my life and I left last June for North Carolina. Not because of the weather, though, which ironically is one of the two things I miss most, the other being Niagara Falls. Also Teds, & LaNova, I moved because my kids lefrt years ago and I had no other relatives there. I'm not getting any younger and my daughter, SIL, grandaughter, niece and her family are here. I actually miss the weather. I love snow and it never gets too cold for me!

Edited: By the way, I love your screen name!

[RespectLife]

@Buffalogal47 

Thanks!

I will send the weather to you!  I like the snow for about 5 mins!  LOL

Born and raised here.....but my heart is Southern!  LOL

My bones prefer HOT!

I am north of Buffalo and closer to Niagara Falls, in Niagara County.  We don't get near the mess that Buffalo and the 'South Towns' get!

Going to Ted's tonight!

The extra time my DD has now to spend here requires another Ted's Hotdog!

[Buffalogal47]

@RespectLife 

Ooooooh!  Yummmmm! Have one for me: a Jumbo All-Beef with their hot sauce, onions and pickles and an order of onion rings!

[Isobel Archer]

And then there was I-95 in VA not to mention AMTRAK stuck for hours.