Kim McMahan grounded in Columbus

Kim Hone-McMahan, who succeeded Jewell Cardwell as BJ columnist, took off from Phoenix, Arizona, where it was 82 degrees.



Kim Hone-McMahan

After circling Cleveland, the pilot announced that the Northeast Ohio weather was too bad to land. So he turned that sucker around and came down at the Columbus airport.

Kim writes:

“Sitting inside plane in Columbus for God only knows how long. Shoot, wish we would have gone back to someplace warm.

“Stay off the roads!”

She may need to rent a snowmobile to get back to Akron.

Kim is married to Chris McMahan.

She has written children’s books, “Vampire Dreams” and “Hoover and Honeybunch (Find Comfort in a Sometimes Scary World),” which was an attempt to help children deal with TV reports about school shootings.

The Brooke McMahan Memorial Invitational Swim Meet at the Ocasek Natatorium at the University of Akron honors their daughter, a 1999 Green High grad, who passed away in 2003 at the age of 23.