My Delayed & Beautiful Flight Experience - Delta Airlines Orlando To Atlanta During Hurricane Idalia
Delta Airlines Orlando To Atlanta
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this it is Wednesday
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August 30th 2023 standing at the
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Forefront of Market Street Celebration
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behind me here while I'm in celebration
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but I am heading hopefully fingers
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crossed to Atlanta Georgia I have a
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flight out of MCO Orlando International
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to Atlanta at 4 30 p.m and I just
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checked and the flight has not been
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postponed or gotten rid of yet and moved
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to another day so this hurricane that at
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this present moment has gone up the
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coast and is going across not really the
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Panhandle but in that little that little
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uh we call it like a little not shoulder
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but an armpit of Florida going across
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from one side to the other like past
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Tallahassee which would be in the flight
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path of Atlanta so it's going to be a
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very interesting day I I have a I don't
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I'm not a betting man but if I was I
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would have originally yesterday thought
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I was going to wake up today and the
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flight was not going to happen and that
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still could be a possibility no matter
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what happens I go to the airport might
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have to come back here later this
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evening might have to get the room at
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the hotel there's a hotel at the airport
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I could book that if the flight does not
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happen
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I'm just gonna see see where the day
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goes and I'm inviting you to just a long
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intro to join me it's raining on me
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shall you yep once again hopefully
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leaving town well I'm leaving town I
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don't know if it'll be today but I would
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imagine it will be today leaving town
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once again and hitting the skies and the
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roads got a quite a few places I'm going
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to be going over the next uh I don't
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know let's call it five weeks or so and
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just to be on the precautious side they
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have tied up the chairs here so they
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don't blow away and I want I don't want
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to say there's any surf or any kind of
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wake or anything but this is a little
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more ripply than it usually is I imagine
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cool is finding a nice little cubby hole
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to relax in so I'm going to say goodbye
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to celebration for a little while I mean
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who knows I might end up being back over
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here later this evening but I'm hoping
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that it all goes well where I will be in
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Atlanta later on at some point this
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evening and just to clarify the main
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bulk of the storm has already passed by
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this area
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the problem is
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I'm going to be in the flight path of
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where parts of it will be so will the
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plane be rerouted
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will the flight take place another time
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or well everything like will I go
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directly over it well they fly over it I
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don't know yeah I got the this this is
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actually pretty smart you just don't
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want the wind blowing all the chairs
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over like this
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so it never a lot of the Hurricanes will
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usually go across through Tampa they
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will go either from the west or the east
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coast of Florida
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and across central Florida but this time
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we just got some outer bands here in
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Central Florida yesterday I drove down
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to Miami and back up it didn't get a
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whole asleep last night I also weighed
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myself today it looks like Celebration
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Town Tavern has got the little plastic
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up to just keep the elements out of
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anyone that's eating over there so the
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but yeah I weighed myself today for the
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first time in a while and I am content
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I thought I was going to lose a little
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bit more but I have been hitting the gym
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lifting a little bit of weights and they
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say that when you lift weights it adds a
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little bit of muscle but I have lost a
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good chunk of pounds a lot of standing
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water around here
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so this here is the completed well not
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completed because I hit the gym today
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I'm not stopping I'm continuing on
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part of the reason I didn't get a lot of
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slumbers I got back at like 2 30 last
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night
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and got up early hit the gym and now I'm
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heading to drop my car off and then head
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to the airport but here's when I started
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the weight loss so back in April I was
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at 260 pounds which is the heaviest I've
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been probably in the last couple of
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years needed to do something about that
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I dropped nine pounds then I dropped
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three more pounds then I kind of went on
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a little a little a mission if you will
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and I lost down to 237 started gaining a
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few back I didn't want to weight myself
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I felt so you know just didn't feel good
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about myself so I didn't weigh myself
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and then I started this 50 day thing and
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now this morning I am at 2 16.0
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so I started at 260. I have lost 44
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pounds since April 19th and 21 pounds
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since my last weigh-in
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heck yeah yeah just double checked
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flight at this moment still good to go
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it's only noon
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according to my parents for a little bit
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before going to the airport
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so I got some time
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it'd be amazing if this thing actually
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gets off the ground today
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all right I've been at my parents for a
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little while I got this alert a while
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back my flight was going to take off at
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4 30. 628
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so I have it in the left to go to the
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airport yet
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but the flight that's coming down from
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Atlanta
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has not even left Atlanta so basically
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it's a back and forth because the storm
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right now is just
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the tail end outer bands is just under
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Atlanta so I think it's going to
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probably even be laid more delayed more
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than 6 28. so keep in mind this has been
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pushed back two hours originally 4 30
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was the takeoff now it's 6 28.
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358 at the moment so you go to where is
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my plane which is kind of neat that you
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can do this
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and it's going to show where the plane
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is still sitting on the tarmac up there
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in Atlanta
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a waiting takeoff so I've been following
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this for a little bit it was supposed to
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take off at 3 32 and then get to MCO at
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533 to prepare for cleaning and then
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everyone else to get on and take off
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back to Atlanta at 6 28. but it's still
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sitting hasn't even gotten on the runway
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yet a waiting takeoff a half hour after
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it's supposed to take off so this this
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is going to get pushed back
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even even more so it's not even probably
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going to land till 6 30 which means I'm
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probably not even at this moment not
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even going to take off till
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7 30 if I even leave it all and the main
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problem is this the hurricane that is
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heading off that direction so it gets us
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kind of heading a northeastish
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so you still got these outer bands of
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the hurricane so a plane obviously does
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not or cannot or should not fly directly
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south
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to land down here
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I got my celebration punched in there
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but then that's going to turn around and
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go back up so this needs to keep making
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its way over
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because I originally I don't want to fly
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over that you don't want to fly through
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it so they're waiting waiting for that
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to move before the plane that's up here
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heads down to Orlando and then back up
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I think I think I'm going to get there
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tonight but it might be it might be a
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lady whoa and as I was stating that went
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back to the
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where's my plane and it is in route and
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they are taking a different look look at
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this they're going around to Tuscaloosa
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they're just going to bypass it
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completely they're not even going to go
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straight South they're going to go west
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and then down across Dothan
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and then down
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look they're just gonna look at this is
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and then they're going to cut across
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they're just not messing around with
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this thing I'm gonna go across
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Tallahassee they're not even going to
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fly straight South
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they're taking kind of a
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a different approach to heading down but
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it's in Flight all right
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I think I must start heading to the
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airport
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all right a little windy here at MCO not
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too bad
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obviously the storm is way past here
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got the control tower up there
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it's off and now
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we're gonna head in
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second one from the bottom
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four in a row were delayed at the top
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actually a lot of actually more than
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four but the top four
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all in a row or delayed
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mine included
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originally was going to depart at 435
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now departing at 6 22.
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it's blinking it's the second one down
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delay delay delay delayed
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let's get it's not at least it's
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happening though I can handle delays as
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long as
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getting out tonight
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looks like it's gonna happen flight 2625
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to Atlanta
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Delta Airlines gate number 74 is where I
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gotta go I was thinking maybe if the
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flight didn't happen I would just rent a
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room right here that way I'd have to go
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back home and that way
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if the flight got rerouted or changed or
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another airline this is the one I had
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didn't happen I could just be right here
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but it looks like I'm not gonna have to
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go that mode
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right here wet floor
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so the celebration Fountain was not on
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earlier because it was kind of rainy
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this morning the fountain wasn't on but
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it is on in here
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indoors inside MCO Orlando International
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Airport there's like a geyser right
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there
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what do you think's worse a banana peel
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or wet floor probably a wet floor but if
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the banana peel was here
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that would make it double dangerous I
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ended up going through the checkpoint as
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a new machine didn't have to take my
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laptop out of the bag you'd have to take
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the shoes off and belt off put the belt
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back on already everything went in a bin
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including
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main main bag in this and everything but
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yeah you could leave everything like the
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laptop could stay in the bag pretty nice
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I am looking for gate number
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four
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all right so this Gateway is just now
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leaving so I gotta wait for the next one
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actually both gate links are leaving
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basically the next two all right the
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gate link believe that's what it's
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called is pulling into the station you
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see the palm trees kind of waving in the
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breeze
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out there the transportation device it
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takes you over to your appropriate gate
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okay 74 I believe is the one I need oh
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they're both pulling into
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the station look how retro these things
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are
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love it
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very retro I even like the
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lights they have up top there the neon
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lights stretch across the top
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foreign
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they have all kind of beads here for
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18.95 each all these beads it's a lot
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more necklaces and there are beads
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though I guess there are some beads
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there pure shopping magic here in the
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little Festival little area looks like
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this is going to happen for me today it
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looks like I am going to be getting on a
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plane
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goes to show you just never know just
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shy of 5 20 which means the plane is
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going to be taking off in just about an
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hour away so it's delayed no no no okay
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delays okay 618. so it should be
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boarding in half hour about 20 minutes
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and then taking off in an hour I ended
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up forgetting to bring any gum and MCO
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Orlando International as one of those
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airports that I do not
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sell gum out I always like a chew gum on
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takeoff and land it keeps my ears from
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popping but not gonna happen today gonna
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happen again just you know Altoids and
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Mentos quite a bit of condensation here
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on the window that you can kind of look
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out there you can kind of see one of the
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planes there but the difference in the
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weather temperature outside versus
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inside creates this condensation right
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on the side of the window itself yeah
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you can't really see it out there but I
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think that might be my plane it's not
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that where there's a lot of
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condensation there on the window you can
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kind of see it over there see if I can
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get a better angle
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it's out there it's much clearer of you
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of gate 75 getting ready to do a
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pushback here
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more or less of this you see the pilots
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getting all ready there
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yeah
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I think they're getting ready to do the
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pushback from 75. I'm gonna witness the
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pushback
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I wonder how many I didn't see any
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anything on the board about nothing that
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was completely canceled but
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definitely a lot of delays
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talking to a guy online a little
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checkpoint line he said his flight was
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to
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he said his flight was pushed back like
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four or five hours today too he's not
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he's going to Vegas
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so evidently not just Atlanta I don't
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know why the one going to Vegas would
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have been
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could have been postponed but weather
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everywhere but the lights are blinking
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it's going forward
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backward making the connection the
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connection's already been made and now
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the pushback is happening
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so for what I've always heard a plane
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just never go in reverse by its own
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accord it's always pushed back with one
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of his little tugboats tug Vehicles tug
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car vehicles
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and then once it gets back to the
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certain point the jet engines are what
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pushes the plane forward but reverse
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this reason or maybe they're not capable
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of backing up or just they don't want to
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utilize the fuel or the burning the
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engine out they go backwards I don't
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know it's layman's terms I actually
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don't know what I'm talking about at all
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but I just know when a plane goes in
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reverse it always is pushed back by this
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little tug tug thing
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pretty cool
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scheduled 4 30 p.m actual 6 18.
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p.m not bad not bad
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at all to be honest pretty content this
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thing is going to get off the ground and
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it's even happening
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oh my goodness it's happening I'm
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boarding seat 5A repeat
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C5
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hey A5 Window Seat to Atlanta I am so
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excited that I'm actually getting there
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today
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larger item in the overhead fit if
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you're traveling with the over with a
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rollerboard who's placing in the
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overhead Bend those are handles first
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and then I'm inside like a book in the
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bookshelf this will help us accommodate
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as many times as possible on today's
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flight we do ask that you please take
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your assigned seat today the flight will
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be somewhat light but we do actually so
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I can see we're waiting balance issues
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thank you very much
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for the amount of aircraft that can fly
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on North and South and for that reason
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this aircraft was delayed on its inbound
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bound flight from Atlanta good news is
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uh most of the hurricane effects are uh
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to the northeast of our route we're
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going to be planning to fly out west of
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the weather looks like a pretty good
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ride a very quick one hour 10 minutes of
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flight time
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uh there are some outer bands of the uh
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hurricane that currently uh have some
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storms north of Atlanta as of right now
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it looks like Atlanta is going to stay
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clear but if that changes will of course
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update you and we'll be uh keeping you
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safe and away from the weather again one
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hour 10 minutes of flight time we'll
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update you uh once Airborne with the
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accurate arrival time into Atlanta to
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apologize for your patience dude thank
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you for choosing Delta deadball board
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thank you
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pretty amazing views of the clouds today
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a lot of clouds
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and once again going to dip under the
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clouds
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already making The Descent
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very quick fight
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real life Cloud City from Empire Strikes
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Back
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I wonder if Lando's out there somewhere
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freaking beautiful
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in the underground
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for cloud formations
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one of the Granite Quarries in Atlanta
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so I believe he was in the first season
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I think it's the first season of
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stranger things and that might be a
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I mean there could be more than one
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Granite Quarry but that looks very
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familiar
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and just like that I am about to arrive
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in Atlanta Georgia
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and for those ending their Journey here
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in Atlanta it needs to create success
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ful bags
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all right it looks like the plane has
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the right away try
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my best traffic he's trying to pull up
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to the gate
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very pleasant and short flight
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about an hour and 20 minutes total
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once I get off the plane I'm going to
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take the MARTA into downtown
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the MARTA is the train basically Atlanta
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Subway
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never knew where it got the name
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hotlanta or why it's called that is it
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the humidity
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arrived at gate B5
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E5
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walking very briskly on quickly on the
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moving walkway which is doubling the
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speed but take a look at this little
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foresty area in here all the greenery up
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on the roof and the sounds of the
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Woodland creatures as I'm walking
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through here at a very quick pace and
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it's not just one room like this you go
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from here caution moving Sidewalk Ends
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so you go into another one
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oh I just heard that's like a bird
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making a noise isn't this neat
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on another moving walkway with these
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pieces of artwork
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through here so you can either take a
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transportation train
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to go over to baggage claim which I
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don't have any bags to pick I can find
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where I'll carry on but then also to the
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main area Concourse where you meet up
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with
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the MARTA train I've opted to take this
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we're taking a lot of trains from here
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to downtown so oh got the gator right
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I have to take the plane train to get
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over to where the station is
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I have arrived here many many times and
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it is I don't think it's a tradition but
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I've I've gone to the store on more than
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one occasion to get Dunkin Donuts and
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I'm going to do that again right now
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kind of sort of a church got all the
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merchandise in here got my coffee
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regular coffee a little cream of sugar
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maybe I should get some Peach Atlanta
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Georgia Peach body mist
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of fun
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but it smells pretty good too with some
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glycerin soap with shea butter
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oh and this spoon here has Georgia
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all right this is the usual Marta
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entrance that I go to please use the
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other entrance access to access the
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station
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going on with this roof here so I guess
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I should walk down there and see if
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that's what this is for I don't know
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where the other one would be please use
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the other entrance access to the station
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not sure where the other one is next to
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the big shoe shine chair
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all right so I'm gonna guess around this
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corner this party station is not open
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oh yeah definitely not open station
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Rehabilitation oh there's William
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Shatner all right pretty quick and
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simple
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w-i they said to go to or W1 that was
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W-2
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so just right down here they have plenty
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of signs directing the way to go
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feels pretty good outside
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Breeze card over here oh wait this one
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has no credit or debit
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Predator debit
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order
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out of order this was not out of order
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so I'll do this all right I got my
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Breeze ticket it's not a breeze car just
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a one-way Breeze ticket for 350. you
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should get me right to downtown there's
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gonna be in the reflection
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which is this way remember a few years
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ago I was going down the same area
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showing this mural
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and I got yelled out by an employee
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saying no filming the murals
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going up I bought a 3.50
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card one way didn't get a breeze car
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just got a freeze ticket
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it will take me down to where I gotta go
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one way direct today
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15 20 minute ride on the old martyr
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getting pretty familiar with flying into
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pick up a drop-off area here no smoking
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under the airport side
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and with the try one of the trains going
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by that's not the MARTA that is the just
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the train to get you around the airport
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take a look at that thumbs up
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and I believe both lines of the MARTA
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will take you to downtown then they
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Branch off but where I'm going
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I can just take either one of the lines
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we're having the next train arrives
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downtown
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my hotel it is now raining see the rain
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coming down there
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so the rain is coming down and here
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comes one of the train lines we're gonna
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hop on this right here
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as you know you're in downtown Atlanta
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when you are on
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the
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gargantuan
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extremely tall
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huge
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escalator to the street level
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look at this thing
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it was one year three or four years ago
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a couple years ago but this thing was
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broken I didn't want to wait for the the
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elevator which is on the other side of
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the MARTA station exit
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and I walked up it with all my luggage
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and that was a mistake I got to the top
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and I thought wow I'm really out of
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shape
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much easier when it's working
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we're taking the elevator that time but
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I didn't so I was hiking up with this
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and my backpack
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hoofing up
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846 steps
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yeah you know you've arrived
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off to Marta Station
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in Atlanta when you're on this
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oh I'm just walking around okay thank
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you though
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that's gonna do it for today
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I have made it to Atlanta
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I I gotta be honest I was not 100 sure I
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would end up
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with the storm that rolled through this
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area
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I didn't think I was going to be landing
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I didn't think the plane was going to
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land here but it did I'll see you in the
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next video the Vlog
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it's over