# Snowstorm Travel Roulette: Where am I sleeping tomorrow night? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 5, 2015, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowstorm-travel-roulette-where-am-i-sleeping-tomorrow-night/714240 "2015-03-05T03:24:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowstorm-travel-roulette-where-am-i-sleeping-tomorrow-night/714240/1 "2015-03-05T03:24:49Z")
Tomorrow’s forecast: - SNOW ACCUMULATIONS…GENERALLY 4 TO 8 INCHES. - TIMING…SLEET DEVELOPING NEAR MIDNIGHT THEN CHANGING TO SNOW BY 3 AM… CONTINUING THROUGH EARLY THURSDAY AFTERNOON POSSIBLY HEAVY AT TIMES. My plans for the day: Get on a plane at 4:00, fly to DFW (Dallas) where I’ll change to a connecting flight; I’m supposed to have 1:50 layover. Where will I end up sleeping tomorrow night? (Poll to follow.) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowstorm-travel-roulette-where-am-i-sleeping-tomorrow-night/714240/2 "2015-03-05T03:33:03Z")
Where is home? Aw, heck, I’ll be optimistic and say you will make it all…the…way! ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowstorm-travel-roulette-where-am-i-sleeping-tomorrow-night/714240/3 "2015-03-05T04:52:01Z")
I voted for Salt Lake. The good news is that you make all your flights. The bad news is you get woken up at an ungodly hour by several hopelessly lost Jehovah’s Witnesses. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowstorm-travel-roulette-where-am-i-sleeping-tomorrow-night/714240/4 "2015-03-05T05:24:08Z")
You left out the ‘Other’ option. You will make it to Dallas all right but flights out to Salt Lake City will be canceled. However, there is a little bit of hope. There is a single flight to Denver that they will put you on. After a eight hour delay, you will make it to Denver so late that there are no more flights to Salt Lake City tomorrow night but there is one to Las Vegas! You will go there and get so caught up in the gambling and partying that you will miss your connection at the ass crack of dawn on Friday morning. All flights to Salt Lake City will be booked until Sunday so you get desperate and decide to ride in a van with some stoner band members who just happen to hear about your dilemma and need some gas money. You will get to Salt Lake City mid-day Sunday without your luggage (because the airline still has it and you will never get it back). You may scoff but I had something very similar happen to me once back in the late 90’s. Six airports, two hotels and three days later, we finally got there but I am an optimist. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowstorm-travel-roulette-where-am-i-sleeping-tomorrow-night/714240/5 "2015-03-05T17:45:05Z")
Any other Family Guy fans out there? http s://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsN4u5UZqno (OK - I worked in some pretty strict places so I broke the link) ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowstorm-travel-roulette-where-am-i-sleeping-tomorrow-night/714240/6 "2015-03-05T17:54:45Z")
**UPDATE:**** Shagnasty**, this isn’t the Pit, I can’t call you want I _really_ want to, 😉 but, ummm, you were the closest to being right! **6:40am** this morning I get a call - flight is cxl’d. The DFW - SLC leg, but when I looked online, the first leg was cxl’d also. Called UScareways, nothing out of Philly tomorrow either, so I’m rebooked Newark, NJ - Charlotte, NC - Salt Lake City. First class, too! 🙂 **11:40am** EWR - CLT is now cancelled for tomorrow! :smack: Called again. Because of all of the other cancels & missed connections, there’s now availability on a direct flight tonight @ 6:00, which is just about when the storm will end. So it looks like options 1 & 3 are still available to you. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowstorm-travel-roulette-where-am-i-sleeping-tomorrow-night/714240/7 "2015-03-05T18:14:43Z")
Get a horse. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowstorm-travel-roulette-where-am-i-sleeping-tomorrow-night/714240/8 "2015-03-05T18:17:30Z")
My flight through Dallas today was cancelled. Sitting at airport now waiting and hoping. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowstorm-travel-roulette-where-am-i-sleeping-tomorrow-night/714240/9 "2015-03-06T02:26:16Z")
Fly to Pittsburgh and take a train from here? I’ll buy lunch! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowstorm-travel-roulette-where-am-i-sleeping-tomorrow-night/714240/10 "2015-03-06T07:22:34Z")
Made it! I’m in the hotel in Salt Lake City! 2 he’s late taking off, but here. > [@Telemark](#): > > Get a horse. If you believe my ex, I’d only need to get the front half of one. :rolleyes: