Welp, that sucks...

[mshunter]

Trying to commute home, and LAX TRACON tookba dump. Everything headed into or out of LA is apparently ground stopped.

 

[derg]

CTRL-ALT-DEL

 

[higney85]

Have ya tried FedEx? It's amazing how they always seem to go, no matter what is going on.

 

[mikecweb]

We're stuck down in Cabo trying to get through San Diego. Unscheduled Mexican overnights aren't in my contract...oh wait.

 

[mrivc211]

It's been very HOT in Socal these last few days. Last night it was 94F at 8:35pm. All throughout the day cell towers were dropping offline. Just a guess though.

 

[trafficinsight]

Wind blew over the radar again

 

[fholbert]

Trying to commute home, and LAX TRACON tookba dump. Everything headed into or out of LA is apparently ground stopped.

They closed LAX TRACON about 20 years ago, maybe more.

Didn't you get the memo?

Coast Approach, Van Nuys Approach, Ontario Approach, Palm Springs, all gone.

 

[Inverted]

Too much youporn...

 

[queeno]

It was LA Center that went down

 

[GremlinHeaven]

Did someone hit a utility pole with their car again?

 

[jafra98]

Maybe someone forgot to pay the electricity bill...................

 

[JeppUpdater]

Have ya tried FedEx? It's amazing how they always seem to go, no matter what is going on.

I remember sitting on the taxiway in EWR one night, both shut down, APU running, waiting in a conga line for a storm to blow through. Watching crap fly around on the ramps...GSE getting pushed around. The planes rocking around in the wind.

And from behind us down the parallel come a FedEx DC-10 and MD-11 back to back, and both taxi by everyone and blast right off into it. The captain and I just looking at each other and our jumpseater like wtf just happened? Cojones, man.

 

[Cptnchia]

I remember sitting on the taxiway in EWR one night, both shut down, APU running, waiting in a conga line for a storm to blow through. Watching crap fly around on the ramps...GSE getting pushed around. The planes rocking around in the wind.

And from behind us down the parallel come a FedEx DC-10 and MD-11 back to back, and both taxi by everyone and blast right off into it. The captain and I just looking at each other and our jumpseater like wtf just happened? Cojones, man.

Well, when Tom Hanks has his stopwatch out, the golden package has got to get going!

 

[99driver]

Maybe someone forgot to pay the electricity bill...................

It is Cali. Maybe the IOU's they sent to the power company weren't good enough.

 

[ASpilot2be]

I think these two are involved

 

[stormchaser]

I remember sitting on the taxiway in EWR one night, both shut down, APU running, waiting in a conga line for a storm to blow through. Watching crap fly around on the ramps...GSE getting pushed around. The planes rocking around in the wind.

And from behind us down the parallel come a FedEx DC-10 and MD-11 back to back, and both taxi by everyone and blast right off into it. The captain and I just looking at each other and our jumpseater like wtf just happened? Cojones, man.

I saw the same thing in EWR, except it was with a Dash 8. Tower asks the guy to take an intersection, then back-taxi the entire length of the runway by-passing all of the jets waiting in line! Gutsiest thing I ever did...er, uh, saw.

Cojones? My child, my child. We take off in this stuff because our 1998 weather radar shows clear and a million on the ground. We don't know how not to take off into that stuff.

 

[GameSyns]

Read on http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/30/travel/lax-ground-stop/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

 

[99driver]

Crazy. A Lufthansa flight diverted to SLC as I was taxiing out.

 

[GameSyns]

Really that's crazy @99driver

 

[Fly_Unity]

I was in the middle of it at FL 280. They gave me "an indefinite hold". I requested 17 thousand and canceled and continued on my way while everyone else was diverting