By MICHAEL SMAR
As students in Provo scrambled to add classes and find out who got engaged over Christmas, the “Blizzard of ’96” left many students from the East stranded 2,000 miles from add/drop cards and chatty roommates.
The snowstorm closed airports from Boston to Atlanta Sunday night. Some airports re-opened Tuesday afternoon, CNN reported.
Winston Ohrn was scheduled to fly to Las Vegas Tuesday afternoon after camping for the day at Newark International Airport in Newark, N.J., with a sleeping bag and hiking backpack, said his mother.
Ohrn, a freshman from New Canaan, Conn., majoring in physics, had planned to catch a Sunday afternoon flight from New York to Salt Lake City, despite warnings of an impending snowstorm, his mother said. Ohrn had put off his return flight to Utah until Sunday because he was to be ordained an elder in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Brendaen Makechnie barely missed his Sunday evening flight out of Boston’s Logan International Airport, his mother said. The inconvenience cost Makechnie, a sophomore from Andover, N.H., majoring in communications, two days of classes, as he could not get another flight until 4 p.m. Tuesday, she said.
Also on the 4 p.m. flight from Logan International was Rachel Foster, a freshman from Marlboro, Mass., with an open major, said Lynne Foster, Rachel’s mother. Rachel was concerned the delay would prevent her from adding classes and hoped professors would show compassion, her mother said.
