Southern States And Snow

Man oh man people were NOT kidding when they said that when it snows a little bit in a southern state shit gets shut down! My flight was at 9:56am. All is well and even after only an hour and a half of sleep, I'm ready to go. It was chilly, and it was raining. (As it has been for 3 days). We get to the airport on time and it is packed. We get up to the computer check in (cuz everyone knows humans are overrated) and we go to sign in.

Please see agent...

Awesome.

So we go to see an agent but have no idea where to go cuz in the grand tradition of airports, it's confusing as hell in there. We decide since we got a minute or so to go check out the monitors to see if my flight is still on time.

CANCELED
CANCELED
CANCELED
CANCELED
CANCELED
CANCELED

Damn near EVERY flight (including mine) is canceled. I was baffled. I couldn't imagine how all these flights were canceled. It wasn't bad outside and there wasn't any fog. What could possibly be the cause?

Then I remembered I was in Georgia.

I look up the weather conditions and there it is: Winter Weather Advisory. AKA there is no way in hell you are leaving here today.

So we go to the line that looks right (cuz again, humans are overrated) and we wait. And wait and wait and wait and wait. FOR 3 HOURS. Finally we get up to the counter and I told her I was on flight 1612 and she goes oh, it was canceled.

.....

No SHIT! Let's put aside the fact that my flight would have left AN HOUR AGO, but there are these monitors that are showing nothing but red. Of course I know my flight is canceled!

I said I am assuming the flights were canceled due to the weather (it was snowing/sleeting by this point) and she goes, Yeah, I just don't know why they didn't get the morning flights out before it started snowing. It would have been fine. I said I'm guessing you're not from here and she goes No, New York. 

I felt a bit better at that point knowing there was someone else that understood the ridiculousness of the situation. So she goes to reschedule my flight and the earliest one was for tomorrow at 8:22pm. I said I'll take it. Had a little scare when she said someone already took it but then she said she got it. 

Last seat left.

It's not that I would mind staying another day or week for that matter, it's just that I HATE my schedule being messed up.

Oh yeah, and I HATE flying.

Funniest thing though was when I was waiting in line, there was a couple behind us who had called their friend while they were waiting. She ends up showing up (in her pregnant glory might I add. Nothing like adding insult to injury) and she is going on about how it looks like snow but it feels like rain and how it was sooo weird.

LOL.

Apparently people around here have never heard the word sleet before. Hahaha.