En route

Well the first leg of the journey was awful, so I'm hoping that it's not a sign of what's to come. Mom and I got caught in a torrential downpour driving down the interstate in Omaha, so that was pretty scary. After I exited the interstate I turned onto a bridge and had practically zero visibility. I saw a bright light in the distance, and began to prepare to cross over to the other side, but I soon realized that it was a gas station and I wasn't dead, so we pulled over and sat until it calmed down a bit. 

We made it safely to the hotel, and I'll get up bright and early tomorrow morning to go to the airport. Hopefully the weather's nicer by then.