Winter weather blows!

Ok, so I was supposed to be up in Moscow, Idaho today going to an Open House for the internship at the Counseling Center at University Idaho. The weather has a way of changing one's plans, though.

I had planned on flying into Lewiston, ID (it's about 40 min from Moscow and had cheaper flights with slightly better times than flying into the Pullman/Moscow airport). My flight left Sunday afternoon and connected in Seattle. I made it to Seattle fine. My flight left Seattle bound for Lewiston fine. Then about 45 minutes or so into our flight (which is only about an hour long total), the pilot comes on and says that we are headed back to Seattle because there is too much snow on the runway to land in Lewiston. It was apparently still snowing pretty hard too.

So I get back to Seattle and after about 45 minutes, they were still saying our flight was "indefinitely delayed." It was slowly becoming clear to me that I was not going to make it to Lewiston. Plus, even if I made it to Lewiston I wasn't sure I would even be able to drive the 45 minutes to Moscow. It's apparently up hill pretty much the whole way and would be crazy in the snow. I started looking into what the flights were like for this morning (Monday morning) in the hopes that I might be able to make it to Moscow in time for my Open House. There were only two flights, neither of which get me there in time and both of which were totally booked anyway. The airport was a madhouse because it was also snowing really hard in Spokane and Pullman/Moscow too. Spokane's airport had closed earlier Sunday afternoon because a plane slid off the runway. Flights had apparently stopped landing in Pullman/Moscow sometime Sunday morning. I also heard that the airports in Pasco, WA and Walla Walla, WA were also closed. It was INSANE! So, I decided my best bet would be to hop a plan back to Boise.

I managed to get on an 8pm flight to Boise and arrived at the airport around 11pm. After discovering that my bag didn't make it (no shocker there), I talked to the Horizon people....the woman said they did eventually cancel my original flight to Lewiston and that they canceled most of the other flights to Spokane and Pullman/Moscow too. By the time I made it home to my house it was 11:45pm. I was exhausted and starving because I never got dinner. It was a crazy travel day. It was apparently a good thing I made it out of Seattle last night when I did...they got several inches of snow over night and the schools were all closed today. The airport delivered my bag this morning and all is well. It is a total bummer that I didn't get to go to the Open House, though. I already had my interview with U of I (it was a phone interview), but I was looking forward to meeting everyone and seeing the site. Oh well. It just goes to show you....winter weather blows!