Tales from O’Hare
23 Aug
This post was written on my Blackberry so there might be typos.
I was on a 3:00 flight to National but moved to the 4:00 because I didn’t think I was going to make it. So I get to Hertz and just as they are handing me my receipt it starts raining – horizontally. The rain went at least 30 yards under the covered structure. We all (random folks) stood there waiting for it to taper down which it didn’t. We heard something that sounded like lightening striking something. When the shuttle’s door opened we all raided the shuttle. The rain was going over the bus to wet us up under the covered structure. So everyone is on the shuttle drenched and wearing suits. When we finally get to the terminal it was closed due to a tornado warning and they made everyone go downstairs. They finally opened everything back up and now I’m on the 6:00 flight which is scheduled to leave at 6:35. I’m standby on the 5:00 which is scheduled to leave at 5:35 but they don’t have a plane or a crew. So now I’m sitting here with wet clothes and wet hair while everyone else appears nice and dry.
Standby flight time changed to 5:55. I think they are going through the standby list now.
Update: At around 8:00 the standby flight was canceled. We boarded my confirmed flight at around 8:30 after hearing that all other flights to DC has been canceled and that many morning flights had been canceled as well. We sat on the tarmac with the engines off for a while and it wasn’t until after 10 that we actually took off. So I get home at 2 am. It took 11 hours total since I first set out for O’Hare to get home.
I feel bad for all the people probably still stuck in O’Hare with nowhere to go. I heard announcements that if O’Hare was not your final destination, that there would be no baggage reclaim meaning it must really suck for them.
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