I have arrived in Greenville, SC.
I have arrived in Greenville, SC.
The flight to Charlotte, NC went fine, and then we had one of those landings where you're flying, and then you're not. Nothing wrong, just probably somebody thought they had the nose up a bit more than they did, so the plane kind of smacked into the runway a little. And then it seems they build extra time into flights in and out of Charlotte because sitting on the tarmac waiting to get to your gate because traffic patterns on the ground is a thing?
The airport is a construction zone, yay? I was fortunate to get a rental car, even though I had reserved one. I know what happens when there's a convention or whatever and apparently they've been getting attacked for days because of the eclipse. So I have a bigger car than I wanted, and one that somebody obviously smoked in (hack cough hairball) in spite of them obviously trying to clean it. At least I didn't end up with an SUV, which I would not have loved.
Traffic was better than I expected. That doesn't mean it didn't stop dead on the interstate. It just means I thought it would stay that way for potentially 4-5 hours. Fortunately not. It really only took maybe 30-40 minutes more than the just under 2 hours it theoretically should. It helped that they had clearly decided no one was going to actively work on all the highway construction today and tried to have all lanes open. I shudder to think what this will be like tomorrow or Tuesday.
I'm exhausted. My head and my insides more or less behaved, but they are still wonky. I am continuing to make sure I am hydrated, and I may try to find something for dinner. I fear that I may not be going anywhere tomorrow, except for possibly early in the am. They have officially upped the expected number of people in Greenville to 1.5 million. That's as many people as are normally in the entire surrounding 10 counties, the entirety of "Upstate" South Carolina. Greenville proper only has about 70,000 or less. It may be a bit crowded.
I cannot imagine what is happening in places like Oregon, or Charleston.
The flight to Charlotte, NC went fine, and then we had one of those landings where you're flying, and then you're not. Nothing wrong, just probably somebody thought they had the nose up a bit more than they did, so the plane kind of smacked into the runway a little. And then it seems they build extra time into flights in and out of Charlotte because sitting on the tarmac waiting to get to your gate because traffic patterns on the ground is a thing?
The airport is a construction zone, yay? I was fortunate to get a rental car, even though I had reserved one. I know what happens when there's a convention or whatever and apparently they've been getting attacked for days because of the eclipse. So I have a bigger car than I wanted, and one that somebody obviously smoked in (hack cough hairball) in spite of them obviously trying to clean it. At least I didn't end up with an SUV, which I would not have loved.
Traffic was better than I expected. That doesn't mean it didn't stop dead on the interstate. It just means I thought it would stay that way for potentially 4-5 hours. Fortunately not. It really only took maybe 30-40 minutes more than the just under 2 hours it theoretically should. It helped that they had clearly decided no one was going to actively work on all the highway construction today and tried to have all lanes open. I shudder to think what this will be like tomorrow or Tuesday.
I'm exhausted. My head and my insides more or less behaved, but they are still wonky. I am continuing to make sure I am hydrated, and I may try to find something for dinner. I fear that I may not be going anywhere tomorrow, except for possibly early in the am. They have officially upped the expected number of people in Greenville to 1.5 million. That's as many people as are normally in the entire surrounding 10 counties, the entirety of "Upstate" South Carolina. Greenville proper only has about 70,000 or less. It may be a bit crowded.
I cannot imagine what is happening in places like Oregon, or Charleston.
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