ATLANTA — Thousands are still without power and many are stuck in Atlanta after hundreds of flights were delayed or canceled.
At the height of the Sunday storm, more than 100,000 Georgians were without power. Now, just over 4,800 remain without power, most of which are in northeast Georgia.
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Georgia Power crews are working hard to restore power to those still waiting on it to return.
“Several thousands workers are involved overall a lot of those are in the field but there’s also folks in the background in control centers,” said Georgia Power spokesperson John Kraft. “We had winds last night for instance that gave us new outages. So some of those that we are still dealing with happened overnight or this morning.”
As crews work to restore power for that storm, they are looking ahead to another potential storm later this week.
Not only did the storm cause massive power outages, many people at the Atlanta airport are stuck with new travel plans because of flight cancellations and delays.
“I found out my flight was canceled last night, but I was able to re-book. I re-booked on a 2 o’clock flight, but then I just came in. I just landed. That was delayed 3 hours,” traveler Stacey Samuel O’Brien told Channel 2′s Michele Newell.
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Jovan Greenhill is trying to get back home to New York, but says his flight keeps getting delayed.
“So we go from 4 in the afternoon to 9 at night, which means I won’t get back to New York until probably tomorrow. It’s unfortunate,” Greenhill said. “The snow, I guess the freezing temperatures are creating ice, so it just is what it is.”
Lawrence Palmer was trying to fly to his sister’s funeral, but his flight was also delayed.
“I was hoping that we didn’t get delayed or the weather wouldn’t cause us not to be able to leave Atlanta,” Palmer said.
Luckily, the airline he booked with was able to find another flight, but he did get a warning beforehand.
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According to Flight Aware, an online flight tracker, 327 flights arriving and departing from Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport were delayed and 65 were canceled on Monday.
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