:11:03
Close down runway 22.
:11:06
MAN: Keep moving, please.
:11:07
-Close down runway 22.
-Keep moving, please.
:11:11
Close down runway 22.
:11:14
They'll break it up after
the TV cameras get a few shots.
:11:18
TV?
:11:19
A lawyer arranged
for news coverage.
:11:22
That's all we need.
:11:23
l'd better get in touch
with the other commissioners.
:11:26
Afterwards you and l will meet
and figure something out...
:11:29
to calm those people down.
l'll call you.
:11:34
WOMAN: Mel!
:11:37
MEL: Hi, Sis. l thought Vern
was on flight two.
:11:40
He is.
:11:44
Sure here early enough.
:11:45
With the weather and traffic,
Vernon didn't want to be late,
:11:49
but we just sailed right along.
:11:53
l thought they were pilots
picketing you.
:11:56
l was set to join them.
:11:57
l heard about your report.
Besides everything else,
:12:01
now you're an authority
on snow clearance?
:12:03
VERNON: l call them
as l see them.
:12:05
MEL: You need an eye check.
:12:07
Clearing those runways and
taxiways is the equivalent...
:12:11
of 700 miles
of two-lane highway.
:12:13
And l'll bet you measured every
foot of it all by yourself.
:12:18
We've had 10 inches
of snow in 24 hours.
:12:20
Anchorage had twice as much,
and they're clean.
:12:23
They've got twice
the equipment.
:12:24
Then get some more.
:12:26
This isn't Alaska.
You don't spend $2 million...
:12:29
for machinery you'd use
once in 10 years.
:12:32
You buy for average snowfall.
:12:33
ln an emergency,
you work around the clock.
:12:36
Sitting behind that desk,
you think like a bookkeeper.
:12:39
l didn't always fly a desk.
:12:41
All right, Daddy, tell me all
about when you were a war hero.
:12:45
You flew pursuit
and could land in a parking lot.
:12:49
When l'm setting down
over 200,000 pounds of 707,
:12:53
l want something under my wheels
that's plenty long and dry.
:12:56
MEL: lt'll be dry tonight,
but not too long.
:12:59
29 is closed.