Post by sunshine817 on Jan 5, 2009 16:04:54 GMT -5
Hi all...just a heads-up -- if anyone is flying to Paris in the next few days, better ring your airline and double-check things.
We now have 1-1/2" (4-5 cm) of snow on the ground
, and it's been snowing nonstop since before I got up this morning. Light, but persistent. Everything is blanketed with fluffy white snow, and it's absolutely gorgeous if you don't have anywhere you need to be. (Hubby has already been informed that HE is driving to school and work tomorrow!)
I've just heard that 1 600 passengers are stranded at CDG (ugh).
The roads here in IDF are sheets of ice. It took us 45 minutes to drive the 6 miles home from the office, as we were slowed to a crawl (15 kph max) and had to detour a few times to avoid hills and such. I drove home...that's why hubby can drive tomorrow!
The autoroutes are being sanded and salted, but the Departmental and National roads haven't been touched, so as traffic melts the snow into thick slush, it freezes with nowhere to go.
Walking and driving are treacherous at best. If you don't have somewhere you NEED to be, stay right where you are until they get this mess cleaned up. Temps are supposed to stay below freezing (MUCH below for a day or two) for almost another week...they're thinking it might warm up by the weekend, but aren't making any promises.
I'm sure it's better inside the Peripherique, but that doesn't help much at CDG.
Just wanted to warn anyone with imminent travel...hiver est ici...in spades!
We now have 1-1/2" (4-5 cm) of snow on the ground
, and it's been snowing nonstop since before I got up this morning. Light, but persistent. Everything is blanketed with fluffy white snow, and it's absolutely gorgeous if you don't have anywhere you need to be. (Hubby has already been informed that HE is driving to school and work tomorrow!)I've just heard that 1 600 passengers are stranded at CDG (ugh).
The roads here in IDF are sheets of ice. It took us 45 minutes to drive the 6 miles home from the office, as we were slowed to a crawl (15 kph max) and had to detour a few times to avoid hills and such. I drove home...that's why hubby can drive tomorrow!
The autoroutes are being sanded and salted, but the Departmental and National roads haven't been touched, so as traffic melts the snow into thick slush, it freezes with nowhere to go.
Walking and driving are treacherous at best. If you don't have somewhere you NEED to be, stay right where you are until they get this mess cleaned up. Temps are supposed to stay below freezing (MUCH below for a day or two) for almost another week...they're thinking it might warm up by the weekend, but aren't making any promises.
I'm sure it's better inside the Peripherique, but that doesn't help much at CDG.
Just wanted to warn anyone with imminent travel...hiver est ici...in spades!
No need to imagine it - I was there! We were scheduled to depart at 11:15, and actually finally got off the ground about 5:15 (having spent five hours of that time on the plane!) Ugly, ugly, ugly - and all of that uproar over "weather" that would get a yawn in Chicago, Boston, JFK, etc. etc. (a bit like the time a few years ago when Atlanta got snow and the airport and city went nuts because no one had a clue how to deal). Needless to say, by the time we made it to JFK it was far too late to connect to the West Coast (so we - and another couple we recognized from our flight - ended up at a nearby Hilton Garden Inn, and it was a bit of a shock after spending two weeks in France to discover that the only wine by the glass was Gallo!)
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Let the riot begin! LOL - 
hahahha