Logan closed through Wednesday morning
 

Hope nobody is flying into Logan airport for UTC. The airport is closed until at least 4 AM, all from 2-4" of snow.

Luckily I didn't leave for the airport on time or I'd be stuck in Oakland for the night right now.

Hopefully this doesn't effect FIRST staff leaving either.

Re: Logan closed through Wednesday morning
 

I doubt it's the snow, more the wind. I think it's safe to call this the second day of the ides of March, at least in the northeast.

Re: Logan closed through Wednesday morning
 

The airport in Boston closes for 2-4" of snow? And people in New England say they can deal with snow!

Matt

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And I'll take this off-topic even moreso. The Ides of March is March 15. It was just the standard way of referring to the 15th of a month in the Latin of Julius Caesar's day.

Matt

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I don't know bout you Matt... but I'd rather them shut the airport down then trying to land a big brick going at several hundred mph into 2-4" of mushy frozen sloshy stuff. Heh. A car can handle it, but it just seems like it'd be pretty tricky in a plane to do and still be very safe, as well as the winds.

Re: Logan closed through Wednesday morning
 

well its now wednesday, and for the past oh...9 hours its been snowin like a banshee here in Concord ( state capitol of NH ). it hasnt been the snow...its been the WIND!!!! for that past hour its been hitting probably 70mph gusts. CRAZY...the reason its probably closed is because of the insane drifts that are gonna be forming when the wind ends. god i love this!

Re: Logan closed through Wednesday morning
 

It's not as if they don't plow the runways.

Besides, I'd trust the reverse thrust of those really big turbofan engines over brakes that don't do a lick of a good when your tire is sliding.

Re: Logan closed through Wednesday morning
 

eh then youll have to hope that the runway is long enough :). REally hope it doesnt mess up how UTC goes, that would be :(

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My understanding was that it's also three very windy days on or around the 15th of March. A bit early, but it's close.

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We're all suffering here in CT from the winds and snow/ice this morning... BUT unless we get another big storm on Saturday (start your NO SNOW chanting now please) we will STILL have the tailgating breakfast in the parking lot Saturday morning!

Re: Logan closed through Wednesday morning
 

As long as we dont have a snow storm like we did last year...

Re: Logan closed through Wednesday morning
 

It's all the 40mph winds drifting the snow and making the landings a little hairy.

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Its horrible here in NEPA. Power on/off quite frequently due to 50mph+ winds during the night.

... to all of you like myself getting to make the long trek across I-80, be safe out there......

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I have a feeling it's not only the snow and wind, but also a bunch of ice, Perhaps???

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Actually it's the wind. I was literally leaning backwards but didn't fall because the wind was pushing me. You know there is problems when you have to walk into the wind to keep going straight.

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I seriously thought my building was going to tip over or the roof would fly off or something. Pretty scary!

Re: Logan closed through Wednesday morning
 

The weather in New England is usally much worse then the inches of snow would indicate.

In my area, the snow was preceded by 2 hours of _rain_. Which then promptly froze as it cooled down. Although we got about 5 inches of snow, which isn't to bad, there is a great sheet of ice underneath it. It will be days before all the patches on the roads are salted.

I wish all we had to deal with was snow.

-Andy A.

Re: Logan closed through Wednesday morning
 

after a few of our team had finished packing for utc, our cart and such, we went outside to go home, the windows on my rides car had about a quarter of an inch of ice over tehma and the back dorrs were sealed shut....y?...the rain and then the freezing as mentioned above...when you apply this to logan, the runways would have more ice, no wonder it was closed....no to worry guys the whether has gotten much better and im sure logan is on time now.

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When the wind sculpts ice--and when the wind is so bad that not only does it plaster snow to walls, but even gets town in southern New Hampshire to break rules so that people with signs plugging candidates can be inside the polling place so they don't die of exposure--then yeah, I'd say there's a good reason to cancel flights.

--Petey