We've been fogged in at the Hillsboro airport 80% of the mornings this month...day after day I drag into the airport at 5:00 am, preflight, and then sit hopefully by the windows watching the mist drift over the runway like a dog drooling over Thanksgiving dinner.  Please clear up, please clear up, please clear up!  Then at 9:00 am I pull the helicopter back in the hangar and go home until 2:00 pm, when I come back to the airport for my evening shift.

Yesterday in an attempt to outwit the weather (ha!) the studio had me fly the helicopter to Portland International and hangar it here overnight.  They had high hopes for this morning,  but unfortunately there is a fog bank hanging over the whole city.  In addition the ceilings (cloud bottoms) at PDX are sitting at 400 feet, which means to fly I'd have to cruise around the city squeezing between buildings and towers at 300 feet above the ground...which is not, alas, safe.  So here we sit again, myself and my pardner Daryl, wistfully gazing at the lights that appear dim across the runway.  You'll have to see those Black Friday lines from the ground cameras, folks, 'cause unfortunately FOX AIR 12 is grounded.