Thousands of travellers left in limbopublished at 18:36 GMT
Grace Eliza Goodwin
US reporter
The snowstorm is causing major disruptions to air travel across the East Coast.
That means thousands of travellers have been forced to rebook their flights or cancel their plans altogether – including me.
I had booked a flight from New York to Minnesota on Monday morning to visit my sick grandmother and to attend my best friend’s baby shower. But on Saturday – two days before my scheduled flight – Delta Airlines notified me that it was already cancelled.
I scrambled to rebook a flight – for free, luckily – as fast as I could before the alternate flights all booked up. I secured a spot on a flight on Monday night, but it, too, was cancelled on Sunday morning. After three rebooked flights were cancelled, as of now, I’m rebooked on a Tuesday night flight – pending further cancellations or delays.
A few days before my planned trip, my father told me I needed to prepare to say goodbye to my grandmother for the last time. I expect that, as a hardcore Minnesotan who’s been through 83 brutal midwestern winters, she’ll laugh at her California-raised granddaughter’s winter panic.
She may even quote a classic line in my family: “Life’s hard when it’s good – let alone when it’s bad.”
