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Flight delays continued Saturday, interrupting question during the engaged vacation play arsenic parts of the state were battered by a deadly wintertime storm.
As of Saturday afternoon, determination were upwards of 2,600 cancellations of flights into, leaving and wrong the United States, according to flight tracking website FlightAware. Over 6,100 flights were delayed.
Denver International, Chicago’s O’Hare airport, and Seattle-Tacoma International were among the US airports astir affected by delays and cancellations, according to FlightAware’s “Misery Map.” Buffalo Niagara International airdrome tweeted that it would stay closed wholly until Monday, December 26.
Saturday’s delays and cancellations travel days of disruption arsenic the tempest swept crossed the country, bringing bone-chilling temperatures and whiteout conditions, with reports of a “bomb cyclone” utmost upwind signifier near the Great Lakes.
On Friday, there were astir 6,000 canceled flights successful the US, and adjacent to 12,000 delays, according to FlightAware.
Greyhound said Saturday that galore of its scheduled autobus services would beryllium canceled Saturday and Sunday “due to the wintertime upwind successful the precocious Northeast and Pacific Northwest areas.” Routes leaving from Buffalo and Syracuse successful New York; Cleveland, Ohio; Portland, Oregon; and Boise, Idaho are immoderate of those affected. Greyhound advised passengers to cheque bustracker.greyhound.com for the latest updates.
Amtrak said Friday morning that the terrible upwind “has caused Amtrak to marque respective work and cancellations from present done Sunday, December 25.” The bid institution said impacted customers should beryllium able to instrumentality trains leaving astatine akin times oregon connected different day.
Those staying astatine location are besides dealing with interaction from the storms.
As of Saturday afternoon, astir 755,000 homes and businesses nationwide were without powerfulness owed to an Arctic blast and wintertime tempest that tore down powerfulness lines. The tempest pummeled parts of the Upper Midwest and Northeast with dense snowfall and blizzard conditions and flooding on the Northeast coast, connected apical of frigid temperatures.
The upwind could interaction vacation gifts, arsenic well.
The US Postal Service, UPS, FedEx and Amazon all precocious said that the upwind is disrupting operations.
On its service alerts page, UPS listed impacted states and zip codes. It had previously warned that “some transportation and pickup services” whitethorn beryllium affected.”
FedEx said it had experienced “substantial disruptions” astatine 2 processing hubs, adding that “all FedEx Express locations person been impacted by terrible wintertime upwind and delays tin beryllium expected for bundle deliveries crossed the US with a transportation committedness done Monday, December 26.”
As of Friday, the USPS said it had temporarily unopen down 89 station offices, and Amazon said it “temporarily closed” immoderate of its sites successful the impacted areas.
— CNN’s Aya Elamroussi, Forrest Brown, Karla Cripps, Haley Brink and Chris Isidore contributed to this report.
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