Saturday travel weather

[87PantherAlum]

Well crap... this isn't what I wanted to hear. We're planning to travel from Des Moines Saturday AM for the game and then drive back that night.

From the National Weather Service hazardous weather outlook for Iowa:

A STORM SYSTEM WILL APPROACH THE REGION LATE FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY BRINGING THE POTENTIAL OF ACCUMULATING SNOWFALL ...FREEZING RAIN...SLEET...AND RAIN TO PORTIONS OF CENTRAL IOWA. SEVERAL INCHES OF SNOW WITH ICE ACCUMULATIONS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS SYSTEM...ALONG WITH RAIN AS THE SYSTEM CROSSES THE REGION. CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LATEST FORECAST FOR GREATER DETAILS OF THIS UPCOMING EVENT SINCE THERE IS STILL SOME UNCERTAINTY REGARDING THE PATH THE STORM WILL TAKE AS IT CROSSES THE CENTRAL PLAINS.

Those travelling from far away may want to keep their eye on the weather... of course, it's completely likely that none of this will come true anyway as we all know how inaccurate weather forecasting can be.

[morrism0]

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I'm in the same boat (coming from Grimes). I am supposed to be back by 7:30 for our company's x-mas party. We'll see how it plays out. Last I heard it wasn't supposed to get here until Sat. night/ Sun. morning. We'll see.

[Purple For Life]

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Well at least the Chickens would know what we were talking about back in the day.

We'll be classy enough NOT to throw snowballs at them.

[UNIPNTHR]

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Maybe we can have a blizzard bowl of our own... any chance the UD charter will be affected by the elements?

[UNIMIS2001]

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Well crap... this isn't what I wanted to hear. We're planning to travel from Des Moines Saturday AM for the game and then drive back that night.

From the National Weather Service hazardous weather outlook for Iowa:

A STORM SYSTEM WILL APPROACH THE REGION LATE FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY BRINGING THE POTENTIAL OF ACCUMULATING SNOWFALL ...FREEZING RAIN...SLEET...AND RAIN TO PORTIONS OF CENTRAL IOWA. SEVERAL INCHES OF SNOW WITH ICE ACCUMULATIONS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS SYSTEM...ALONG WITH RAIN AS THE SYSTEM CROSSES THE REGION. CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LATEST FORECAST FOR GREATER DETAILS OF THIS UPCOMING EVENT SINCE THERE IS STILL SOME UNCERTAINTY REGARDING THE PATH THE STORM WILL TAKE AS IT CROSSES THE CENTRAL PLAINS.

Those travelling from far away may want to keep their eye on the weather... of course, it's completely likely that none of this will come true anyway as we all know how inaccurate weather forecasting can be.

If you can't make it, I will buy your tickets because I too am in Des Moines, but will be traveling to Cedar Rapids early on Friday.

[Purple For Life]

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Maybe we can have a blizzard bowl of our own... any chance the UD charter will be affected by the elements?

*evil laugh* That would be rather karmic, wouldn't it?

[Oldhen]

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Maybe we can have a blizzard bowl of our own... any chance the UD charter will be affected by the elements?

Leaving Philly at 5 PM on Thursday, is what I heard...

[Whitey81]

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knowing the Philly airport all too well, they'll be late with or without weather...

[Oldhen]

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knowing the Philly airport all too well, they'll be late with or without weather...

The place $ucks.

[Whitey81]

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True, true

[87PantherAlum]

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If you can't make it, I will buy your tickets because I too am in Des Moines, but will be traveling to Cedar Rapids early on Friday.

Sorry to hear about your ticket troubles... I hope you can get some tickets located so you can be at the game. I'm pretty sure we'll make it to the game one way or another, though... it would seriously take a blizzard of epic proportions to keep us away. We haven't missed an in-state game all season and I'm not about to miss this game if we can help it!

[Newsbreaker]

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knowing the Philly airport all too well, they'll be late with or without weather...

We flew through there this summer...what a DISASTER!

The plane was flying round trip, Philly to the Dominican Republic, dropping people, picking us up, and going back.

90 minutes late arriving, amazingly only 60 minutes late arriving in Philly. We had a scheduled 75 minute layover. Neat. Sprinted through customs, all the way across 3 terminals, they took my ticket and I'm halfway down the jetway when they grab me and say "oh, your flight is third in line for this gate, this is Boston, not Minneapolis." (All three flights worth of passengers were sitting at the same gate, and they never did change the name on the board to reflect which flight was boarding.)

But hey, at least they lost the WHOLE PLANES luggage. Nightmare.

To the weather...I am sort of looking forward to the "Outside, snow, wind, hell on earth...inside 72 degree, no wind..." on Saturday and having it be meaningful!

[Chitown Panther]

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Nothing can be consistently as bad as O'hare.....

[Short'sPanther]

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It's football weather outside! Deep into football season, the weather is chilling. Thank God for the dome!

[unigriff]

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i've never had problems at O'hare...i like it! well except the food is quite expensive