Just got an email from AA telling me to expect issues with our flights to and from MIA on Friday due to the weather and ongoing flooding event there. Offering a free cancel or change, but I'm not seeing anything doable even connecting thru other airports.

I checked flight tracker to see what gates my flights had been using the past couple of days, and Flt 1136 scheduled at 10:05 finally pushed at 11:38, and was still in line for take-off almost 3 hours later. Probably needed the gate, but what a drag sitting on the plane all that time. Flight tracker says flights into MIA are being held at their origin an average of 4 1/2 hours.

"We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came." ~ John F. Kennedy