Spent on the ground in Danbury. We were supposed to be off yesterday after work but the weather was kind of dicey with thunderstorms and heavy rain all across our routing.
We've been making the Haaj to Oshkosh since 2001 so this will be our 8th trip to Airventure. Flying westerly in the northern hemisphere is always a chore since the predominant weather pattern moves from the west to the east so you're typically going to have to cross a front at some point during the flignt.
Today we woke at home to heavy rain and thunder so rather than rush and check the weather I was inclined to roll over when my alarm went off at 5:30 local. However since I'm the systems admin on 22 Windows and Unix servers I resisted the urge and logged on to verify that everything that was suppoed to be running was running.
Once that was taken care of I jumped on DUATS (www.duats.com) to see what the weather was going to be like. It wasn't good so I made coffee and brought it to my bride Judy and told her the bad news.
Judy's got a corporate job with a fortune 50 company so her vacation time is set in stone and naturally she was looking for any silver lining in the dark cloud's that would get us pointed on our way.
That wasn't happening so she picked a couple of cups of blueberries and made some Jam while I went into work.
Well the long and short is we're waiting for improvement that might be here tomorrow afternoon. The forecasts come out at 8AM 2PM 8PM 2AM and cover a 24 hour period. We're working on 2PM today till 2PM tomorrow now and they show a significant improvement over the dismal weather we have at this moment. 8PM is next and hopefully it will be like the KC and Sunshine Band song of old "Tell me something good'.
More later.
SPW
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