Posted on 07/03/2023 7:28:24 AM PDT by Libloather
Thousands of travelers are making one last ditch effort to get to their destinations for the Fourth of the July holiday after storms walloped the country, causing mass delays and cancelations.
Nearly 100 flights have already been canceled as of early Monday morning and delays were at 661 and steadily climbing, according to FlightAware.
More severe weather is expected to pummel at least 15 states from the Northeast and mid-Atlantic to the Southeast on Monday following a day of storms.
Not only is air travel being snarled, but so it road traffic with millions of people along the Interstate 95 corridor under the threat of strong winds, hail and possibly an isolated tornado.
There were 15,567 flight delays in and out of the United States on Saturday and Sunday and a total of 905 flights were canceled.
More than 50 million people are expected to make a trip of 50 miles or more this holiday weekend with AAA predicting the numbers will break records.
Stranded passengers have reported having to sleep at the airport and stand in line for hours as they tried to rebook their flights, with some saying they were forced to wait several days for their checked bags.
Today's continued travel chaos comes after furious passengers stranded in airports across the country lashed out at Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for not fixing the airline industry.
But Buttigieg doesn't appear worried with how embattled airlines plans to improve, instead on Sunday morning said he is 'focused' on making sure the U.S. airlines stay on track over the holiday as he warned of 'severe weather' causing even more delays and cancelations.
According to the National Weather Service, there were more than 250 combined reports of wind, hail and possible tornado damage from the Mississippi River to the East Coast.
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Why can’t the woke dictators pass laws saying the hail can’t hit the airports, it needs to be diverted to the much needy solar farms.
Blame climate change.
Probably still focused on racist highways......freakin’ insanity. SMH
The worst time to travel anywhere is on a holiday.
Didn’t anyone learn anything from Kevin?
There’s no place like home.
Oww,oww,oww I know! Lets launch reflective material into the atmosphere to reflect solar rays away. What could possibly go wrong? 🤔
My weekend for picnicing was cancelled...but not unexpectedly. The weather reports across the nation made it quite clear rough weather patterns should be expected. So a plan B was already set just in case.
Time to spare? Go by air!
Pete Buttjuice is on it
One of my wife’s nieces and her 2 teen girls flew back to the states from across the Atlantic last Saturday and barely got out of Newark to O’Hare.
Her husband wasn’t scheduled until the 3rd, and he had to cancel his return to America flight due to last minute business.
Then, due to previous world wide flight cancellations and rescheduling by millions of other passengers, he could not re schedule his trip to the states for 2+ weeks.
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