{"id":10565,"date":"2006-12-22T10:21:22","date_gmt":"2006-12-22T17:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/12\/22\/okay-a-couple-more-words.html"},"modified":"2014-11-16T22:34:58","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T05:34:58","slug":"okay_a_couple_more_words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/22\/okay_a_couple_more_words.html","title":{"rendered":"Okay, a couple more words &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Hopefully this was a day or two ago\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/denver-plane.jpg\" width=\"220\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>CNN coverage of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/TRAVEL\/12\/22\/snowstorm.airlines.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Denver situation<\/a>.  Denver is the fifth busiest airport in the US &#8212; but with the storm heading (with heavy rain) off east and north, I expect air traffic this season is going to remain really sucky.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, we can&#8217;t pre-print the tix for some reason (and, yes, we checked to see if it was David hill, International Man of Mystery, but the reservation is under David C., so &#8230;).  And note that the airport opening at Noon will be with just two of the six runways open, so we&#8217;re not out of the woods (or plains) yet &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I am only slightly mollified by knowing we&#8217;re not the only ones &#8212; though it&#8217;s not snow, but freezing fog that&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/TRAVEL\/12\/22\/bt.britain.flights\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">seriously reduced flights out of Heathrow<\/a>, the busiest airport in Europe, for <em>three days<\/em> &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN coverage of the Denver situation. Denver is the fifth busiest airport in the US &#8212; but with the storm heading (with heavy rain) off east and north, I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,749],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","category-weather-and-seasons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":137450,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/09\/the-best-and-worst-airports-in-the-us.html","url_meta":{"origin":10565,"position":0},"title":"The Best and Worst Airports in the US","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 9-Nov-18 8:52pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This comparison is getting pretty heavy play at different sites (e.g., LifeHacker), but I'm kind of stunned to see Denver in the bottom half of the 30 busiest airports in the US -- I find DEN comfortable, convenient, and largely a pleasant place to travel from and to. (Things are\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10578,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/20\/maybe_we_can_catch_a_slei-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":10565,"position":1},"title":"Maybe we can catch a sleigh ride, Part III","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 20-Dec-06 6:03am","format":false,"excerpt":"The good news is, the Winter Storm Warning is canceled. The bad news is, as of 4:21 a.m. this morning ... ... Winter Storm Warning is cancelled... ... Blizzard Warning...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;School Daze&quot;","block_context":{"text":"School Daze","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/school-daze"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25995,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/02\/winter-storm-warning-for-all-your-denver-area-folk.html","url_meta":{"origin":10565,"position":2},"title":"Winter Storm Warning for all your Denver area folk","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 2-Feb-12 1:03pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Quoth the NWS (in case you hadn't heard):.. Winter Storm Warning remains in effect from 5 PM this afternoon to 11 PM MST Friday... * timing... snow will develop late this afternoon and continue through Friday night. Moderate to heavy snow will tonight and continue through Friday evening... then gradually\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":20781,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/18\/this-is-a-drill.html","url_meta":{"origin":10565,"position":3},"title":"This Is a Drill","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 18-Apr-11 9:12pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Kinda cool\/scary email from my city councilman: Loud Noise and Traffic Disruptions On 20 April, there will be an emergency services drill at Centennial Airport that will test the ability of the airport to handle a huge incident in another city that will send many patients to hospitals in the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Homeland Security&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Homeland Security","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/homeland-security"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":19999,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/03\/tweets-from-2011-02-03.html","url_meta":{"origin":10565,"position":4},"title":"Tweets from 2011-02-03","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 3-Feb-11 11:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Impending warnings of flight groundings by Continental at 3p. I'm on Frontier, but ... and pretty much all flights booked up. #houston # Doesn't bode well for my travel. 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