Yet another reason to break reservations up at overnight layovers. No domino effect in case one of legs goes sideways.
In this case, most likely flood risk. Usually the initial cancellations aren't more than 24 hours out. Subsequent trains can also be cancelled, so they'll get notice more advance of their departure.
Note they probably cannot process a full refund until the cancellation/bustitution is made official. That might not be until tomorrow sometime.
2 Terminated in SAS, so it's set is not in NOL.
They did the same thing last time it was impacted.Wonder why they list Sunset Limited as “operating between Chicago and New Orleans“?
Must just be an error in the alert…
Wouldn't such a flight be crossing the path of the hurricane and get cancelled too?
It depends. Quite often they find a diversion around the area with unacceptable turbulence. Usually it is affected airports that get avoided, but not flights that would normally fly across where a bid storm is. They take remarkably huge diversions to get around them.
Planes can go around once airborne. The problem planes have is whether the airport can remain open.
Wonder why they list Sunset Limited as “operating between Chicago and New Orleans“?
Must just be an error in the alert…
Just goes to show just how much Amtrak HQ is aware of and cares about the National Network.
This one did have significant shear at higher altitudes which kept it from explosive strengthening. It never could get its act together and stack fully vertically, hence limited to barely Category 2. It's top kept getting blown off to the northeast.
Strictly speaking that particular fault would have originated in CNOC (Consolidated National Operations Center) in Wilmington, who know very well which train goes where, but are at times quite careless with the provision of information to customers. Now it is indeed a corporate problem that the leadership of CNOC is not pulled up for such pointless little errors that are easy to fix..
