Driving from Des Moines to Sioux City tomorrow afternoon. This should be a fun trip.
You'd really love an experience I had some years ago. Landing in Houston on one of those small regional jets, when all of the sudden the plane banks hard right. And I mean as hard as it will go. I look out the window, and I see another aircraft pulling the same maneuver probably 200 feet away.
DSM should be fine with the wind as both runways are long enough to accommodate everything. CID on the hand may get dicey if the crosswinds get too big. Can't say that I have seen airliners use 13/31 very often.
My dad hated flying due to when he was in the military flying over the Pacific Ocean when the plane started having problems, and they had to turn around and make an emergency landing. Every time we flew growing up, he would just get loaded. Seemed to do the trickYeah, those stories are why I don't want to fly again. I've flown 3 different places in my life, nothing traumatic happened, but I just am not the biggest fan. I'm pretty comfortable staying within 5-6 hours of home, places where I can drive to...
Shaking my **** head?smdh. You people repulse me
I worked in the tower at CID for 27 years before I retired last December. I’d say the regional jets are getting more and more comfortable using 13/31. If we got steady winds of 20 knots or more out of the north or south, we’d advertise 13 or 31 as the active and almost everybody would use it.
(That’s not even including the times the airport would close 9/27 for construction and the airlines had no choice. Allegiant didn’t like it much, but we didn’t get many complaints from the rest.)
Driving from Des Moines to Sioux City tomorrow afternoon. This should be a fun trip.
It was 1987, she probably could have just smoked on the plane.When I was like 9 we went to Disney World and on the way back our connection was through MSP. Crazy snow storm. Somehow we end up walking out to a tiny ass propellor plane on the runway to get us back to DSM. My grandma stops before we walk up the steps and says “I’m smoking a cigarette before we get on this plane there’s a 50/50 chance we end up like Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper”. That was 1987 or 1988.
It was 1987, she probably could have just smoked on the plane.
Whar your storm updates?
Not much to write home about 3 miles west of Target Field near Mpls. Maybe 5 or 6 inches or so. Official stations are mostly 6-8 for metro, so on the low end of the range forecast.
When do we hype Part II? Looks like the big Gophers/Badger Axe Battle will be in the rain and not snow Saturday.
Every single station in MN is saying the state will be completely dry Tuesday through Friday of next week. We shall see.
Whar your storm updates?