Holiday travel has been particularly hellish this year for lots of folks, and it's not getting better any time soon.

Incessant rain in the Bay Area caused delays for passengers traveling out of SFO last week. Storms in the Southeast on Christmas Day caused long delays and cancellations. (Our spouse was at SFO yesterday, and an early-morning Miami flight had been delayed six hours. Oddly enough, our spouse's flight through Chicago only had a very minor delay.)

Today, blizzards on the East Coast caused cancellations of several flights, including eleven United Airlines flights, five Continental, four American Airlines, and two Virgin America flights. The airlines were busy rebooking passengers today and hoped to resume normal operations by Tuesday -- just in time for that pesky new storm front headed our way on Tuesday afternoon, which is expected to linger through Wednesday afternoon or Thursday.