My wife and I were in Aruba when the 1978 storm hit….. we booked through a travel service that contracted its own private jet to shuttle its customers from Washington DC and the Island…..
The storm hit the the evening before we were supposed to leave….my wife and I I had packed and set our luggage outside the door for the Porter to pick up and we went to breakfast by the water…. Got back to room after breakfast and noticed our bags were still there…. So I went to the lobby to find out what happened….. The staff had several TVs tuned to US stations and were very excited about the snow catastrophe hitting the Eastern seaboard….
The Charter plane was stuck for 5 days before coming for us….
The Travel Agency paid for our hotel and we stayed another 5 nights….
Best vacation EVER!
Cool story. You guys lucked out.