Spent the weekend in Seattle and on the way out we got stranded (alongside thousands of other passengers) by a sudden snowstorm.
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This is when the nightmare began… it started snowing when we returned our rental car, and didn’t stop for hours.
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We sat on the plane this whole time and then they said the airport is shut down and we all had to deplane… no rollaway beds – we just slept by our bags along a wall where we found a small area to camp-out. Airport floors are HARD.
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The next Alaska airlines flight out was in DAYS, so I just went online and booked ourselves two tickets the next morning back home via Southwest Airlines!
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