Blizzard Strands Speaker After In-plant Conference

"It was kind of cool because I never see snow like that," Loyd says.

As the drifts piled up outside, he and the other trapped travelers watched football in the bar ("I got to see LSU win," he remarks), mingled with the colorful members of the Red Hat Society (a social organization for women age 50 and beyond) and listened to a polka band.