Chamu Escapes Big Snow Storm

Chamu was scheduled to take the last flight out of NYC today at 6:30pm. Two days ago, Mamu saw on the news that a big storm was coming in on Friday and secretly thought perhaps she could try to escape it by getting on the first flight to head back to LA on Friday. Fortunately, she was able to finish her work on Thursday and Dadu so patiently waited for 75 minutes on hold with American Airlines to get us seats on the first flight out of New York on Friday.
On Friday, we woke up to 4 inches of snow at 5pm but nonetheless made our way to the Airport. At the airport, we were told that our flight was still scheduled to fly but the flurry was getting even heavier. We waited and watched news about major delays and cancellations around the Manhattan airports but were glad to see that our flight takeoff time only got push back a little bit. Finally, after one hour of delay, we were able to board and after another hour of de-icing the plane, we took off! Although it was wobbly take-off, we soon cleared the storm and were flying at 30,000 feet.
Six hours and a few drinks (non-alcoholic) later, we landed in LA. Early spring sunshine and breeze were awaiting us. We watched many stranded passengers at the East Coast airports on TV as we exited the airport. We were so glad to have escape such a big snow storm and we are finally on our way home!