but there are things you can do to ease the pain, let's get travel tips from scott mccartney, the travel travel season can be rather trying, you say you can help yourself out by knowing the weather not only where you are but where you're going. and also where you may be connecting. explain. >> reporter: yeah, where you're connecting could be the most important factor in your trip. if you know the weather will be bad in charlotte, even though you're going from say florida, to california and the weather is fine in both places you may be suffering big-time delays. the quicker you figure that out, call the airlines. see if you can re-route through a hub in houston or dallas or someplace that no longer is affected by this storm. >> you also say sign up for those flight alert services. they could really help, right? >> yeah, they really can. and not just from your airline, but also a service like flightstats.com, and flightaware.com, flightstats gets information from computers and airlines, at the airport, you can be standing at the gate and get information from the flight service long before