Should I...

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…try to fly home or drive home? I’m in East Chicago (an hour away from O’hare) for a PLC training class. :hang: Class is done at 11 tomorrow morning and I have a flight at 5:30 which will get me home at 8:30.

Problem is, Chi-town’s supposed to get a couple inches of snow and 30mph winds. My flight is coming from Des Moines, which has a blizzard warning until 6pm tomorrow night.

So I could try to fly home, waiting at O’Hare for a few hours possibly just to have my flight delayed or cancelled due to it not getting to Chicago or/and not getting out of Chicago and not get home till late tomorrow or Saturday. Also, I’d have to deal with O’Hare at 5pm on a Friday. PITA…

Or I could keep the rental car and drive home. Should be about an 8 hour drive neglecting traffic and shitty weather. The drop fee for dropping a Chicago car off in Buffalo shouldn’t be too bad, but it’s Praxair’s money and I probably won’t catch any hell.

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id fly

i drove to chicago last spring and it sucked, most boring drive ever and it was nice out let alone in the snow

theres also a train, but that takes like 13 hours

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Get blitzed in the airport…

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Take it from someone who was stuck over in O’hare two weeks ago…

At best you are probably 40% to fly home tomorrow. Even if the skies were clear, O’hare is ALWAYS delayed.

On the other hand, the drive will blow.

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fly. get free pretzals.

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Driiiveee…

I’m driving from GA to Buffalo tomorrow-saturday…

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Are you @ a Rockwell Automation training? What platform are you working with?

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[quote=“fairgentleman Z,post:3,topic:25307"”]

Get blitzed in the airport…

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Cha-ching.
Especially if you can do it as a write-off.

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[quote=“fairgentleman Z,post:3,topic:25307"”]

Get blitzed in the airport…

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There’s a plan :tup: fuck driving.

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hey mark, he took an IC engineer position for Praxair if I am remembering correctly, How is arizona treating you?

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[quote=“16vCorvette,post:7,topic:25307"”]

Are you @ a Rockwell Automation training? What platform are you working with?

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Praxair class, PLC-5. I am going to Rockwell training in Rochester next week though for SLC’s, which is the platform I work with.

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I can’t believe people actually live in Ohio. It’s soooo boring to drive through.

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I’m sure the people in Maryland say the same thing about us Corey.

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Take the chance on flying.

Even if you only have a 40% chance of flying out, it’s better than a 100% chance of a shitty drive.

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dude. southwest…

MDW -> BUF

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[quote=“RedGoober4Life,post:12,topic:25307"”]

I can’t believe people actually live in Ohio. It’s soooo boring to drive through.

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I-90 Ohio…Copsssss everywhereeeeeeeee :whip:

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[quote=“Karu,post:16,topic:25307"”]

I-90 Ohio…Copsssss everywhereeeeeeeee :whip:

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Good to know, if I end up going that route. We’ll see. I’ve been eating and drinking on Praxair’s dime all week and I’m going to do it again next week. At this point I just want to get home for the weekend.

We racked up a $900 dollar dinner bill at a hibachi steakhouse last night. :tup:

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[quote=“Karu,post:16,topic:25307"”]

I-90 Ohio…Copsssss everywhereeeeeeeee :whip:

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I haven’t seen your car lately :frowning:

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Personally I would fly
Parents in Chicago->School in Rochester

Your will get stuck in Indiana, your will get stuck in ashtabula county in Ohio

An 8 Hour drive will become a 14-16 hour drive, get blitz stay at the hyatt in the airport or camp O’Hare is worse comes to worse, its usually a lot of fun