yes, it is not uncommon to get stuck at the Seattle airport when you are trying to get back to Victoria or Vancouver. A bit of fog or a few snowflakes and they seem to cancel all the local flights. (Well, sometimes it seems that way, anyway!)

I have been caught up in this situation with car rentals at SeaTac before (some car companies would not rent a US registered car to us to take into Canada), so I wanted to find out a bit more. I phoned Hertz at SeaTac just now and they said they will try to provide a Canadian registered car to Canadian renters, but they can always give you a US registered car and will set you up with a location to exchange for Cdn rental car as near as possible, with no drop fees or anything.

Why do we have this silly restriction, in the first place, though? Is this to prevent Cdn citizens from sneaky ways of bringing US car purchases into Canada or something? I don't understand!