Good point about the first responders. Talk about the stuff nightmares are made of.

Did you know they used to have a Love's in Bellevue? It's the only time I've ever heard of that restaurant until now. Haven't thought about that place in years. It had great food from what I remember.

The tiniest sliver of a silver lining is that events like this make flying all the more safer. Given time, a new procedure, redundancy, mechanism, or safeguard will be put in place. They released the demographics of the manifest and all I could do was say a Hail Mary and hug my son a little tighter before bed. I feel not only for those families, but the first responders that have a grim day ahead of them.

AI slays the beast. Lots of chilly inversion days on that model too. If it's right the second half of January is very much in play for something good. Pretty interesting that both AI models really explode the heights big time over us early in week 2.

Ooh nice! I spent a night in my car at the truck stop that is just across the state line as you get into Alabama. Heard a lot of owls. Also had breakfast at the Love’s right where your dot is at. That stretch from Chattanooga to Birmingham is absolutely beautiful to drive nearly any time of year, especially in late April when everything has just leafed out and the valleys are in a Seahawk Action Green against a deep blue spring sky. I can appreciate why folks homestead in the southern extremities of the Appalachians.