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Snowpocalypse/snowmageddon. 2010 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_5%E2%80%936,_2010_North_American_blizzard https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_5
by throwawaymaths 3y ago
Snowpocalypse/snowmageddon. 2010
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_5%E2%80%936,_2010_North_American_blizzard https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_5%E2%80%936,_2010_N...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_25%E2%80%9327,_2010_North_American_blizzard https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_25%E2%80%9327,_2010...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_25%E2%80%9327,_2010_North_American_blizzard https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_25%E2%80%9327,_2010...
Two back to back storms, there was about 12 hour window where you could get in or out. This poor guy was supposed to fly back during the first, got pushed to a flight during the second, and then the pile-on of rebookings pushed him further. I don't remember if he got trapped due to the third storm too.
It wasn't completely cut off. During the first storm, I got head notice of the next one and rebooked my flight out of the east coast to be one day earlier, and threaded the needle by politely asking customer service. I was in and out of the east coast for a week.
Anyways, Some cities on the east coast are less prepared than others for this sort of thing.
- LeafItAlone 3y agoI’m familiar with travel in that storm. It sounds like they didn’t really make an effort. They _didn’t_ get back, which is different from they _couldn’t_ get back. Which is probably why they got fired. Overall, though, it doesn’t change your original point about interviews, and I didn’t really need to take us on this tangent.
- devoutsalsa 3y agoWhen flights get cancelled, if you really need to get back, you can book your own flight and hope for reimbursement. Getting rebooked through an airline is usually a horrible process in my experience.