Stuck in Seattle...(UPDATE)

[lame54]

Last edited Mon Jun 28, 2021, 11:55 PM - Edit history (1)

Flight cancelled
Next one 7 am tomorrow
City is booked up
Spending the night in the airport

Talked myself onto a different flight
Will take off soon and get in about 11:30 PM

NOT spending the night in airport

[montanacowboy]

1. Hey don't knock it

You have free AC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! people are filling up every hotel and motel room here -

We have two fans running and are just cooking.

[lame54]

4. Remember it's Seattle...

They have no need for air conditioning in this building
AND THERE ISN'T ANY

As evening approaches the heat is backing down a little

[montanacowboy]

8. OMG

no AC?

[lame54]

10. Wish I could share a pic I took of the terminal...

Looks like a Who concert

[pnwmom]

17. The usual forecast every summer was for less than a week of temps over 90.

And it's usually not humid in the summer, so most of the summer was livable without air conditioning -- till recently.

[cilla4progress]

2. Oh no

I'm flying through there to my daughter's in Montana on Friday.

Hope it's not too crazy!

[montanacowboy]

6. Cilla

We are heading to Montana on Thursday and will end up in the same heat over there. Probably stay in the motel all the time as daughter's house doesn't have AC as homes over there don't. We are not built for this kind of weather, but nevertheless, we have brought it on ourselves.

[Maru Kitteh]

21. Headed for the Flathead or Missoula Valley?

I'm at 4000ft in the Flathead, it's usually a LOT cooler and almost none of our neighbors have AC. Thank goodness we do.

If you're headed into the Flathead I hope you booked your hotel long, LONG ago because rooms at the super 8 are going for $300+ last i looked.

[MontanaMama]

24. I think cilla is headed for the

Bozeman-ish area. I think it’s really hot there too…and hotel rooms are probably long gone there as well. All the hotels here in Missoula are packed…even the crappy ones. Maru, we are overrun with people here from other places…not just tourists. They are HERE. It started last summer and they aren’t going anywhere. It’s weird and I don’t like it.

It’s 86 degrees right now. 102 tomorrow. Stay cool, neighbor.

[Hortensis]

3. Wish-sending you a sleeping bag and pillow to sleep on top of.

Sleep well.

[lame54]

5. Thank you

[Hortensis]

11. :)

We're 3 hours ahead here, but eventually

[maxsolomon]

7. Lame, 54

Heat's supposed to break tonight - if that helps.

My brother almost got stuck there heading back to Bozeman. Had to fly to Billings and a friend drove 2 hours to pick them up.

[lame54]

9. I'm on a connector from Spokane...

They will be 110 on Wednesday

[betsuni]

12. What are you going to eat for dinner?

I miss alder-smoked salmon, clams, Dungeness crabs, delicious Northwest beers.

[lame54]

13. I just had cold $15 dollar ham sandwich

[MerryBlooms]

14. Low of 70 tonight, I hope the airport has lots of fans deployed.

High of 115 again today for us in southern Oregon... I have plants that are literally cooking and crumbling in my fingers when I touch them. My heart is breaking for my lovely gardens. I have blooms opening in the morning and are cooked by 10am. The birds are panting and not straying far from my fountains... Especially sad are our little humming birds, seeing them pant and their heavy breathing. It's desperate times here. We have at least 7 more days of these above 100 days.

[MustLoveBeagles]

15. And I thought it was hot here

[MerryBlooms]

16. I told my sister that Death Valley was only a few degrees

higher than us! My gardens will Not withstand this heat. None of my plants will, except my few cactus... This heat is incredible. My hanging fuschias were crisped day before yesterday. I have them hanging under my wisteria arbor in full shade and watered... Didn't save them. The heat was so great, by the time I got home from work, they were dead. That tells me the evaporation rate must be very high, because the humidity is very low. I'm just sick. I cannot believe the amount of plants I'm losing each day!

[MustLoveBeagles]

18. I'm sorry

It's the opposite here. The temp isn't extremely high but the humidity is.

[treestar]

19. Why do they cancel flights?

Heat does something to plane engines?

[Dave says]

20. Less lift (and melting Tarmac)

I remember landing in a city when it was 114 degrees outside. The Tarmac was king of spongy.

[BlueSpot]

22. Look at the bright side

You probably can't afford a hotel room in Seattle anyway. Even without a heat wave, the last time I was there (at least 20 years ago), the hotels were $300 a night. Can't even imagine what they might be now.

[lame54]

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[lame54]

25. I'm home snd going to wake up in my own bed

[lame54]

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