Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
01-28-2014, 06:14 PM
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The picture on the left (and I'm the blue dot
) was at 1pm-ish. The picture on the right was just now. The difference is at 1pm there was some movement and the cars were getting in accidents. By 10pm nobody was moving so no accidents. Problem solved.
01-28-2014, 06:29 PM
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01-28-2014, 06:40 PM
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How are crews getting to and from the Downtown layover hotel?
01-28-2014, 06:52 PM
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01-28-2014, 06:57 PM
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Is MARTA running? I got stuck in ATL a couple January's ago while non-revving due to an ice storm not quite as bad as this one. No rental cars, no shuttles, a zillion people sleeping in the airport because of no movement anywhere. Went down to the MARTA station and paid $2 for a ride downtown. Walked 1/2 block to a Marriot and had a nice time. Took like 20 minutes from airport to downtown.
01-28-2014, 07:01 PM
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01-28-2014, 07:01 PM
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Rumor of Delta flying employees out to Louisville and putting them up in hotels ... . I'm sure some are spending the nights in Business Elite lie flats (were the mechanics usually doze during these severe IROPS.
01-28-2014, 07:02 PM
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So I get off APC to get some pictures of the house. There is a school bus off the road, so I walk down to the scene and offer assistance. Keep walking and there are two Delta Tech Ops people and their sons helping stranded motorists get unstuck. We team up with two cops to try to keep the local road moving (if we can't unstick them the cops use their push bars and basically shove them over the hill or off the road). The cars getting really stuck are mostly German sports sedans. The cops are easily doing several thousands of dollars in damage pushing Mercedes and BMW's with their bumper guards, nobody seems to care.
After 5 hours of that the line of cars is never ending. The Tech Ops guys decided they are going to work. So we got them unstuck and I started walking home. Found three families spending the night in their cars including a Pan Am pilot and his wife who had picked up their 3 year old grand (great?) daughter from school, ... two of the three families are in our house and one is with our neighbor.
Never seen anything quite like this. Our friends kids are everywhere. One group is spending the night in a furniture store (beds and couches).
After 5 hours of that the line of cars is never ending. The Tech Ops guys decided they are going to work. So we got them unstuck and I started walking home. Found three families spending the night in their cars including a Pan Am pilot and his wife who had picked up their 3 year old grand (great?) daughter from school, ... two of the three families are in our house and one is with our neighbor.
Never seen anything quite like this. Our friends kids are everywhere. One group is spending the night in a furniture store (beds and couches).
01-28-2014, 07:06 PM
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Wonder how Al Gore's mansion in Tenn is doing in this heat wave??
01-28-2014, 07:06 PM
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I know it's always worse down south because nobody has 4WD or AWD cars. Plus where I live there probably aren't even 5000 people in a 50 mile radius so there are never any cars to clog up the roads so you can't get through. Plus ATL can't just roll out sand trucks to the usual clogs in the system. They are just screwed until it warms up.
After UPT I had a 1984 VW Rabbit, my house mate (a KC135 Navigator) had a new 1984 BMW 325. We rented a house in Maine that had an up sloping driveway, ie. you had to go up hill to get out of the driveway, and it was pretty steep. One morning after a 6" snow, he couldn't get his new Beemer out of the driveway. He'd get about half way up the hill and start spinning and sliding back down, so I had to drive him to the base in my VW, which was funny for me, because he had always been busting my nuts about how I should by a "Nice Car, like a BMW..."
So that morning as I drove him to Pease AFB, I said to him, "You know, for what you paid for your car ($25K), I bought a sailboat, two windsurfers, a Bianchi road bike, a BMW R100 motorcycle, and this new VW Rabbit ($8700), that will actually get me to WORK!"
Anything with rear wheel drive is going to suck in snow and ice. No weight over the rear wheels. The F150 2WD is about the WORST thing in the snow, with no weight in the back. The guys up Nawth put sand or firewood or cement blocks or something heavy in the back in the winter, to get some weight over the rear wheels. Still they spun out a lot.
In the 1990's I had a 4 WD Ford Bronco that got me to work and home again, from NH to BOS, in over a foot of snow many times. It was nice to not have to shovel it out of the employee parking lot at midnight after a 4 day trip. I'd just get in and back it out, right over the plowed up piles of snow.
But with ice on the roads in ATL, with a whole bunch of Beemers and Mercedes, high power, rear wheel drive, with people who don't drive in it on a regular basis, and no sand trucks, it's going to be a mess. I hope there aren't too many fatalities.
Good luck men! We're all counting on you!
Last edited by Timbo; 01-28-2014 at 07:21 PM.
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