Snow tomorrow and airport closure (Charlotte, Raleigh: house, vs., weather)
Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, CaryThe Triangle Area
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If you're parking and then need to walk to the terminal, that's going to add 10 minutes probably.
Just keep an eye on the roads and be prepared to leave earlier if things are starting to look dicey. You get some slick stuff down on the roads, and all of a sudden those 10 miles on 540 will take a lot longer.
How much snow are we expecting tomorrow and over the weekend? The forecast I saw wasn't very clear about it. I have a partner with a car that doesn't do well in any kind of snow.
If you're parking and then need to walk to the terminal, that's going to add 10 minutes probably.
Just keep an eye on the roads and be prepared to leave earlier if things are starting to look dicey. You get some slick stuff down on the roads, and all of a sudden those 10 miles on 540 will take a lot longer.
Yep. Perhaps OP wasn't here in 2005 when people were stuck in their cars because traffic came to a screeching halt due to an inch of snow.
Now, I'm not saying what happened in 2005 definitely will or won't happen tomorrow, or that OP needs to head to the airport now and camp out. Just that anything's possible and it's often difficult to predict what will happen.
I would be more concerned where my plane was coming from, and delays late in the day, than I would with local conditions.
And, when to arrive? I find RDU fairly comfortable to loaf in and usually plan for time to read a bit, play with my phone or tablet, etc. 3:00 seems just a bit tight to me.
Now, I'm not saying what happened in 2005 definitely will or won't happen tomorrow, or that OP needs to head to the airport now and camp out. Just that anything's possible and it's often difficult to predict what will happen.
The same thing happened back in February 2014, albeit on a smaller scale. If the roads weren't so cold it wouldn't be a big deal, but with the temps in the teens low 20's as lows for several days, anything that falls usually sticks to the road like glue. I witnessed traffic come to a screeching halt real fast that day. I left 20 minutes earlier than my neighbor who works right up the road from me. It took me an hour and 20 minutes to get home (normally 20-25 min) and it took him 3½ hours. I literally saved myself hours in just leaving a few minutes earlier and it was still a horrid drive home.
If flakes start flying, or you even think they're about to start flying (with the roads this cold), I'd be ready to beat feet outta there. With that being said, we might not really see anything in Raleigh. I hope not, because I don't want another hellish commute tomorrow...or Monday for that matter.
A little snow or ice isn't the reason to leave early; it's the accidents they cause that could get you stuck in traffic for an hour or two. Best to be proactive.
I'd leave at 2:00 if you can, just to be safe, because ice, and all.
I'm flying out tomorrow too but at 10 a.m. - am going to get there a couple of hours early in case of sleet and general weirdness on the road. Plus, Five Guys sells burgers for breakfast.
There's snow forecast tomorrow starting late morning. We have a flight at 5pm. How easily do they shut RDU? Should we expect cancellation or delay or nothing?
As Wizard pointed out, the biggest risk is the airlines not wanting to have their hardware stuck on a tarmac somewhere not in a position to generate income.
I had a friend fly in from Michigan for the NC State/Duke game a few weeks back and was scheduled to arrive on the Weds. prior. He got shut out even though there was nothing going on here but oddly caught a flight the next day out of LGA when there were issues here.
Keep the "Flight Aware" app at hand, it will update you far sooner than the airlines will.
(BTW - We had a swell time at the game, made even more fun by blatantly disregarding the Governor's warning that we were a public menace by attending. Unlike Hizzoner, we don't get comp tickets. If I'm payin' and they're playin', I'm goin'...)
Last edited by take57; 02-11-2016 at 01:52 PM..
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