Air Travel, leaving New York City
Posted by Pete | Posted in News | Posted on 02-11-2012
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Today while walking out to get the mail, I looked to the west overhead here in Albuquerque, up into a pale blue sky with contrails east bound and west bound, 3 eastbound and 4 westbound. It made me wonder about the people who where up there traveling…..Were they ones leaving New York City and points in the east who had just faced the terrible storm and headed west for some relief or were they people headed home in the east to see their loved ones who had just lost everything. I suppose I’m an old softy but the last two days as I watched the news and some old folks, like me, going through a home totally destroyed and having lost everything, picking up bits and pieces of their belonging, tears started rolling down my cheeks…I just can’t help it… So, let me just say a prayer that the Lord will bless them with kindness and love them through all this. And if those folks over my head today, traveling eastbound, were headed toward some of their loved one, then I say to you, God bless you and give you strenght to be a major help to those who need you so much during this time. Sweetie and my thoughts and prayers go out to you all….Pete Hester
What a touching piece from a stranger so far away from unknown people facing a tragedy while looking up and seeing only a mechanical monstrocity flying through the air and using one’s imagination to express one’s concern for whom, only in all likely probability, they might be there! Of course, it is always much better to wish grieved people condolences face-to-face; but, if that is impossible, it is touching to see someone, who is an unknown, do it from afar.
Actually, it was only yesterday morning that I was looking out of the Department of Health, Public Health Laboratory building in Little Rock when I saw overhead four contrails westbound, all of which appeared to be coming from either Atlanta or, perhaps, Charlotte, as virtually all westbound aircraft in this area do, when I was thinking the very same thing. Since you were walking out to get your mail, and allowing for the hour time difference, it is weird that both of us may have been thinking the very same thing at close to the same time (different contrails, of course). Who knows how many other Americans saw the same (or different) contrails yesterday and thought the very same thing, saying a similar prayer at approximately the same time. What a great country this is. Vote for Romney-Ryan! But if Obama-Biden somehow does win again, some how we will meddle through it because this is a great country of a great freedom-loving people.
It does indicate that the airline industry is already bouncing back after Sandy. The greatness of a nation is underscored when normal operations so quickly are resumed after a tragedy,;whether it is Katrina in New Orleans or Sandy in New York City. It has to be both a proud and a humble moment when one is elected President of this great nation.
So it is. Thanks, Errol….