[dtengineering]

I had to check and make sure this wasn't April 1... but dang... it IS real.

While I don't have any helpful ideas (building a raft won't work all that well... the currents take you up past the Aleutians before bringing you back down the coast) I can sympathsize somewhat. It may be possible that one of the local FRC teams can take you in as billets for a couple days until this all gets sorted out.

If an airline is particularly helpful in getting you back home, please make mention of their efforts here. It might influence other teams in a positive way when selecting who they want to fly with.

We came VERY close to having a similar situation in our first year... we flew back from Toronto on Canada 3000 (an absolutely miserable flight... cheap in every way) and when I got off the plane I observed that the airline wouldn't be around for much longer because people would fly with them exactly once. A month or so later, they folded. We only missed your situation by a couple of weeks.

Mind you, we would have been stranded in Toronto...

Jason

P.S. Maybe the school board needs to be a bit more flexible in this situation, too... perhaps the parents back home need to get on the board's case a bit.