Traveling East? Consider Modifying Your Plans

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If you are traveling Wednesday or Wednesday night between Asheville and Boston, you have a chance of major travel disruptions. At best, it will be windy and rainy. At worst, there will be heavy snow with high winds. Here is a preliminary forecast snow accumulations from 4am until 4pm (EST) Wednesday.
This is is not a storm total forecast (totals may be higher) and much can change between now and Wednesday. If it were me and I was planning to travel to this area, I would try to change my plans. The best approach would be to see if you can leave a day earlier. Sure, you may have to pay for a extra hotel night but being there, safe and secure, makes an extra hotel night a small price to pay. The same advice applies to driving.

My (free) airline survival guide tells you, step by step, how to do it. I suspect the airlines may issue waivers (some call them "exemptions" now) as early as Monday.

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  1. UnknownNovember 23, 2014 at 4:49 PM

    I believe you are 100% correct on this one as the hours go by the more convinced I become it thing may turn into a storm that's really bad and will effect millions of people along the east coast of the U.S. from the Greenville, S.C. area all the way up to Maine! @EmergencyWxNet on Twitter we have been warning people for about two weeks now that this could happen! With all these people travlening I was hoping not but the way it looks at the moment I believe the snow is going to win this battle! THANKS! LEN R. HOLLIDAY

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  2. Mike SmithNovember 23, 2014 at 4:55 PM

    Yes, each piece of data makes this storm look worse. Thus, being proactive could pay big benefits.

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