We had flight delays the whole trip - but only missed one school because we couldn't fly there. Praise the Lord for that blessing.
Started with getting to Alaska. Jenica had heavy snow in Appleton and a snow plow that ignored their street so they literally had to dig their way out to the airport. They were late but the flight was delayed so she made it on board. But Bob was not so fortunate. He was just getting back from a family break and missed his connection so was delayed into Anchorage which put us behind schedule on Monday.
I had three legs of travel and got messed up by the second one out of Salt Lake City...a bird had hit the plane I was on so they switched us to a new one and then that plane had trouble with the pilot's oxygen mask - twice. That meant I missed my Seattle/Anchorage flight and had to go stand-by at midnight or wait till 7 pm the next day! The standby list was long. They called names off that list until they got to me and then stopped...just missed it! But then one of those people was not there so they finally called me! Praise the Lord again!
Monday flying from Anchorage to Unalakleet was perfectly clear (but very windy) so we got some awesome views of Alaska's rugged terrain.
And all week the weather threatened us with delays or no flight at all which meant we'd miss the next school. Our pilots were very careful and conservative. They watched the weather carefully on the web - and came across a rare crazed weather front that had wrapped around itself three times! They had never seen that before. And they said that in the lower 48 states, each State was one weather forecast area. Alaska has 27 separate forecast areas. And one of the nights we had to tie the plane down due to high winds.
Friday was the only day we couldn't get into our next village, White Mountain. Thanks for good pilots and flyable weather!
We left Nome in a heavy snow storm and came into O'hare in an ice storm!
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