Frozen hell???
Nah! Upstate New York (Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Utica) is a frozen
hell to me. Where I am, we get basically
3 lousy months a year (unless you are
into skiing and snow sports, of course!:)
so I consider myself pretty fortunate.
In upper New York State, you got summer
and then you got Oct-Apr. for winter. I was based out of Utica for about
4 years
flying Metros and F-28's for Empire Airlines. The summers in NY State
are
beautiful but man, those winters!!! And
"lake effect" snow! Geesh! :(
I can recall walking out on the ramp at
o'darkthirty to preflight the ship, only to
have to come back in and explain every-
thing but the horizontal stab and upper
tail were pre-flighted, 'cause it was snowing so hard with so much wind
you
basically couldn't see the top of the tail
from the ground!
Had the de-icer team check it when their
lift got 'em up there!!
Cap'n. Bob
'60 :{)
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