On Thursday I am going to France, leaving the US from Philadelphia. As a midwesterner, I am not familiar with hurricanes. It is my impression that they hit the South with terrific force, then turn into incessant rain as they go north.

At present, it looks like we will be in the air long before the storm is a problem that far north.

However, my curiousity is aroused. What do airlines do when a hurricane is "weeping itself to death" on the northern East Coast? Fly over it? Re-route people? Is there turbulance? I would like to hear people's experiences.