For sure, there's obviously a lot more factors at play than I'm considering. I just found it weird that they didn't try to go around the south side as it seems way shorter. Based on some other routes I looked at, it's possible that they were attempting to try to split the two biggest systems that were just starting to merge because some other guys made it through there, but it didn't work out and they had to go up north and all the way around. Maybe KC Center couldn't take any more guys deviating to the south of that system.
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