New Meaning to "Bad Day at the Office!"

Our day started out fairly normal today. This meaning that compared to the last 4 or 5 days of freezing cold weather, delays due to bad weather in other cities, lots of broken equipment, etc., this was a good day. No delays (yet!) and the flight loads were fairly light considering that it's only 1 1/2 days until Christmas.
Then about 10:45 or so, during the course of working one of our scheduled flights, we had word from our operations via the radios, (walkie talkies if you will) that we were going to have 2 diversions come in. In case you aren't sure just what this means, let me explain. Diversions would be scheduled flights between two other cities in our system that need to stop in Omaha for other reasons. Example being bad weather in one of the other cities. That was the case in Chicago's Midway airport. They were having the bad weather that had been here a day ago. But it was worse! The airport ended up closing. Our dispatch department in headquarters, which is located in Dallas, TX, decided that some of the flights en route to MDW (Chicago Midway) that couldn't land there would have to divert to Omaha. OK, no problem. Nothing unusual there. Things happen like that more than people realize.
Then ops called again and said there would be an additional two diversions. That makes 4 extra airplanes. We only have 2 gates! But, there is ample parking space on one of our north parking ramps. Another call on the radio.....3 more diversions! Great! 7 in all! Now we might have a problem. During all this, we are still under normal daily flight operations. Along with all the diversions! Soon thereafter, all 7 airplanes landed in Omaha and went to the north parking ramp. Our supervisor went down there and parked them all. No one would be getting off....they would just sit there and wait to be released again unless the wait time was going to be extended. The rest of us handled the regularly scheduled flights.
Now, I've been in Omaha over 13 years. I've never seen more than 5 of our airplanes on the ground here before. Today, we had a total of 9 here all at the same time! It's like we were a hub city! It was great! We just had to get some pictures of this unusual event. So I took my cell phone and snapped a few for myself. They're not too bad for a cell phone. Click each photo for a better view.

Here are the 7 diversions all on the north ramp. Keep in mind that there are two more airplanes parked at our 2 gates by the terminal as well.

Another pic with some of our ground service equipment.
A view from the opposite direction.

At least I got to leave in the middle of all the airplanes being released to take off again and head to Chicago. I was done at 1:30 PM so I didn't have to deal with any more oddities for the day. We had had enough excitement for one day.....at the office!