Blizzard

So I was "lucky" enough to have to fly through one of this year's snow storms.  Not only that, my flight was one of the only flights to land in Charlotte during the great cancelfest, as well as even depart for Austin, with only a deicing delay.  I wouldn't be surprised if my flight was the only flight that day to do so.  Here are a few pics.

Just pulling into the gate.  Just prior to landing we were under our landing minimums, so we held for a bit, and nearly had to divert to Knoxville.

An Airbus A330 covered in snow.

Thick flakes at Charlotte-Douglas.

Approaching white-out conditions.

I was one of the few, lucky, unaffected flights to arrive and leave.  SAV - CLT - AUS - PHX with minimal delays, and light loads too.  And Phoenix was sunny and warm, as always.  The airport was a ghost town because of the inbound cancellations.

At one of the deicing bays.  All the planes were dripping with green glycol.

A few more from the deicing bay.

Finally our turn.  It was freezing rain at this point, so whatever fell that was wet instantly froze to the plane, so deicing was thick and took half an hour per plane.

A US Airways A319 gets the glycol treatment.

Deicing an A321.

Apparently Charlotte ran out of glycol the next day, meaning the entire airport was shut down.