Disruptive Telephony

Travelling in the US at this time of year is always a gamble.  This is the time of large storms with snow, ice, sleet and all sorts of things that don't particularly work well with large metal tubes flinging themselves through the air.  The trip out would have been a complete mess had I flown 24 hours earlier... and now the trip back is looking like it has the potential to be... um... "interesting".  I'm leaving very early tomorrow morning flying United... and frequent travellers will immediately realize that flying United pretty much guarantees I'm flipping through Chicago. 

Students of North American geography will take one look at the CNN weather forecast map to the right (click for a larger version) and realize the impending problem.  For those not familar with the layout of our fair land, well... you see where that "L" is?  Designating the center of the storm?  Chicago is just a tiny bit to the right of that... pretty much where the cloud and other symbol is - meaning that it probably won't be a terribly good travel day today in Chicago.  United has already announced "severe weather problems" affecting Minnesota, which is just a bit northwest from the "L", i.e. that's where the storm was yesterday and into today.

We'll see... perhaps it won't be that bad or perhaps they'll work the system issues out by the time I am to arrive there tomorrow....  good news is that I've plenty of work and other things to do to keep my busy while sitting in airports...