@TomMcW shovel I understand, why sandbags?

@ymb1 Adds weight for traction and if you start spinning you can cut it open and put sand under the tires to get more traction

@TomMcW I see! thanks

@TomMcW well, worth mentioning (for the laughs) that I thought you were going to barricade your car with the sandbags :D my brain apparently could only think of what it saw on TV when they barricade homes in floods, and I was like, why would he trap himself like that? :P

I thought maybe company regulations to protect the packages :P

it's late I know :D I'll see myself out now, cya :D

@ymb1 L8R

@anonymous you mean the link that was posted just above yours? ;)

@TomMcW how was the road?

@ymb1 Roads are fine. It stopped snowing after a couple of inches. There's hardly any of it left.

good good

@ymb1 It apparently missed Indianapolis. All our flights were on time

@TomMcW how often are runways cleared of snow during heavy storms? or do they just shut down and wait it out then start clearing.

@ymb1 I think they clear them pretty quickly when it stops snowing, but while it's snowing it gets hard to keep up. The problem is when the storms hit right during inbound or outbound at the hubs. There are so many planes at the same time that any delay dominoes. A couple of years ago we had a plane slide off a taxiway. Not sure what they had to do to get it unstuck but it was a significant delay.

There was a day last winter when the plane arrived just fine but the wind gusts exceeded the design limits of the cargo door so they had to wait for two hours before they could unload

@TomMcW big courier companies should invest in ULD-jet bridges :D

building to plane, no nonsense in between

@ymb1 There are a few at the Memphis hub. Not very many, though. They must have decided they weren't cost effective.

@TomMcW oh! gotta see those

imagine a 747F opening her nose and docking with a building :D how cool would that be

@ymb1 The whole time I worked at the hub I only saw the nose door opened once. They only used that when there was something particularly big. The jet bridges were on DC-10 gates

@TomMcW can't find real photos, only a patent drawing