One night around 2:00 a.m. our home telephone rang.  It was my boss from Omaha.  He told me that the charter flight for Iowa State fans traveling to the Peach Bowl football game in Atlanta was snowed in and still on the ground in Des Moines.  It had been scheduled to depart at 11:00 p.m.  This was a very special event for Iowa State, and there would be many irate fans if they didn’t make it to Atlanta in time for the start of the game.  The weather reports for Des Moines were not good.