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Originally posted by Peaches-n-Cream
It will snow 3 to 6 inches in New York City on Friday. Stay safe everyone! 
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What a strange day.
I've been in New York for the past couple of days. I was originally booked on a 4:45 PM flight to Denver, but by about 11:00 AM the snow had started much earlier than it was supposed to, so I grabbed a cab to LaGuardia and changed to a 1:45 PM flight.
By 12:30 or 1:00 PM it was snowing really hard and very windy. The airplane for my 1:45 flight was diverted to Kennedy. As the afternoon wore on, no planes were landing at LaGuardia at all. I figured it might be better to go to JFK, but United said nobody was getting in there either. So, thinking the storm might ease up a little, I rebooked on a 7:00 PM flight to Washington Dulles, connecting to Denver. It was cancelled about 4:00 PM. So I booked myself on an 8:00 AM flight Saturday Morning.
In fact, pretty much everything was cancelled.
EXCEPT...
I saw a United guy looking out the window holding a hand held radio, watching the runway. He told me that one plane was going to attempt to land -- from Denver.
So, I hung around, and it did (new plane, automatic landing system)
It was the original 4:45 flight I was supposed to take in the first place.
So, I got in line (which hardly moved), then another line, then the line at the gate where the plane had just come in -- and got on a standby list for my original flight, which by that time, of course, was overbooked -- hoping enough people had given up and gone home.
Well, I did get on the flight -- which left about 45 minutes later than originally scheduled due to loading and straightening out all of the standbys, de-icing, etc. Of course, I got a middle seat.
Well, we took off, and after all of that, we arrived in Denver one minute EARLIER than the original schedule.
So, bottom line is that I spent 5 1/2 hours at LaGuardia changing flights, in order to get in a minute early in a much worse seat.
Go figure.