#764

Deadly icicles outside my window, pretty awesome, I know.

On the ice in the Arctic of Utah.

Reason #764: Hangar space.

Snow days snow days!

There is something serene about the lights of Vegas at midnight, even if it was captured on a cell phone. Anyway, we desperately needed to go to Vegas before the "storm" hit, so the night before it's arrival we fled, as bumpy as it was. After being denied into Mccarren, we ended up in Northtown, we flirted with the idea of hitting Nellis AFB, but at this point I just wanted to go home.

Thankfully on the way back, we had an awesome tailwind, which bumped our ground speed up to 168 knots, that's 193 MPH for you groundies. You never get that in any normal conditions with the can I fly, we usually average 100, 110 knots on a GOOD day. Which should tell you how fast the winds were, cold front pushing it's way through. Oh, and never mind the blur, cell phone and turbulence.

Anywho, since that first initial storm last Saturday, every other day we get a gorgeous dump of new powder, usually around 4 inches. I made a snow angel before work yesterday and plan to make another in the morn. Ah, gotta love global warming, eh? If I haven't said it enough, this storm is awesome! They closed Vegas airports for a bit and diverted them up to SLC, we had an emergency divert come in to Cedar on their way to Northtown due to low fuel, ceilings were dropping fast, they made it just in time. Good times. Oh and they canceled school in St. George because Vegas is having the worst snow fall in 30 years (3 inches so far), they're just anticipating. I do love it, it's so exciting.

In case anyone was serious about my new VLJ (my toy, very light jet), the Eclipse. You can pick them up for around $1.2 mil, not bad considering they are worth $2.6. I'm just saying (clearance sale, they filed Chapter 11). But if you're REALLY REALLY serious, I'll take a Gulfstream, $20 mil on a good day, or a little cruiser Cirrus for $400,000. I'm pretty picky about colors too. I'll give you a ride, for free. Just pay for fuel. Ha ha.

Enjoy your holidays folks.

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What I want for Christmas, any takers? They'll be on sale. December was lonely.