Like, say, on Monday? My friend wants to know. Really wants to know. Because she’s, you know, going on a fabulous honeymoon and does not want to spend it at the Charlotte airport.
The odds don’t look in her favor right now:
My NJ kids are not happy about the prospect of a second year in a row cancelled Halloween.
But… I mean, what happens? Seriously, am I not going to get a honeymoon?
Well you could always change your flights and go West instead…
Hope you like spending two days of your honeymoon stuck in planes/airports.
Travel insurance?
Cancel and rebook?
We only get two weeks of vacation!
Might be covered by your travel insurance too.
Eta: two weeks! That sucks!
Where are you going? The storm could have completely passed Charlotte by Monday.
I mean, we have more than two weeks of vacation, but we can only take two at a time. Er, our tickets are Charlotte to New York to Bucharest. I suspect the New York part is an issue too, although possibly we could change airline or something - doesn’t British Airways fly to the UK from Charlotte? We did get the trip insurance. God, this is the one thing I thought was taken care of!
Air Canada does too I think.
If this hits on Election Day, could decreased turnout affect the outcome of the election?
It seems like North Carolina & Virginia are the only states along the eastern coast that are in play, and current predictions have the storm hitting north of there – most likely in the New Jersey-NY City area. All those states are expected to be solid Democratic votes. Could either NY or Massachusetts possibly go Republican, if the storm hurts voting in the coastal metro areas like NYC or Boston, but doesn’t have that effect in the inland, western, more conservative areas of the state?
Sandy’s going to make landfall next week. Election day isn’t until the week after. Now, there ARE possibilities of power outages that could last that long and muck up voting, and states in the landfall area that have early voting are likely to see a few days that would otherwise be normal voting days facing closed polling places. But the Big Day should be pretty clear of the mess.
Sorry, brain fart there.
Maybe subconscious thinking My God, still one more week of this???
Charlotte Airport isn’t so bad… we’ve got a Tequileria…
Oh lovely. I just checked the NOAA website and the mark for the 8 pm Tuesday prediction is basically right on top of my house.
American work schedules - 2 weeks is standard.
Work 60 hours a week.
Unlimited sick time, but get fired if you use it.
Stare jealously at the folks across the pond.
sadly, this is true. :mad:
where I work?? that 2 weeks is called “PTO” for paid time off and you take that if you are SICK and you take it for holidays.
does that suck or what? it sucks.
But…but…but…pooling your leave time allows you more FLEXIBILITY!!! Didn’t you know that?!
Hey now, we still have sick leave and annual leave. And we take sick leave whenever we need it. (It is definitely not unlimited, though!) But ask for more than two weeks and it has to be approved by precisely the same person who is my own personal workplace bully.
The wine tasting boutique, featuring North Carolina wines (No, really! Some are even good.) is a good way to kill an hour or two as well. I also liked the rocking chairs they had scattered throughout the terminal.
As far Sandy and flight delays…here’s weather underground’s current 5-day forecast for where it’ll be. Note that it misses Charlotte (but the wind field is probably quite large) and is threatening NYC on 8AM Monday. Looks like landfall is probably going to be some time during the night of Monday/Tuesday.
For the pro pilots in the forum, do you guys have to completely divert around a hurricane? If so, how far out of the way do you have to go? Would that diversion distance force flights to be cancelled? With a cloud height of 15km +, (granted Isabel was a lot bigger than Sandy’ll be) it doesn’t look like you guys can fly over the top of it. Not to mention the fun that would be if you lost an engine and possibly had to descend into that crap.
I’m sorry, Zsofia. I wish you both the best of luck. Congratulations on your wedding!