Planes, Trains, Automobiles

Sunday night, 6p.m. I get an automated phone message from Northwest Airlines. Dad's flight from Erie to Detroit is cancelled due to lake effect snow in Erie. They've rescheduled him on flights that put him in LaGuardia at noon on TUESDAY!!! That doesn't work, since I have to be at the hospital at 2:00 on Tuesday. PANIC!!!

Quick phone call to Erie. They're completely buried in snow. Panic again(me, not them). We start running different scenarios...what about Amtrak...dad can drive to Detroit and pick up his connecting flight...why not try Jet Blue out of Buffalo...take the Tuesday flights and just meet up with me in the recovery room after surgery...all these options stink!

Then Dad does what only Dad would do..."I'll get up at 5:30 a.m. and drive!" he proclaims. Dad...it's lake effect snow. Several feet. Three consecutive days worth.

So I go online and look at driving conditions down I-86 (NY 17). No snow. Roads perfectly dry.

So he drove. 520 miles. From the lake effect snow.

"What you do for others comes back to you ten-fold." That's what he always tells me. If that's case, he's a very rich man!