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Flight delays continued on Saturday as parts of the country were battered by a deadly winter storm, disrupting travel during the busy holiday season.
As of Saturday morning, there were more than According to flight tracking website FlightAware, 1,800 flights to, from and within the United States were canceled. More than 3,300 flights were delayed.
Chicago’s O’Hare, Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson and Newark in the New York City area are the U.S. airports hit hardest by delays and cancellations, according to FlightAware’s Misery Map.
Saturday’s delays and cancellations come after days of disruption caused by storms sweeping across the country, bringing icy temperatures, white clouds and reports of a “bomb cyclone” extreme weather pattern near the Great Lakes. Some wind chill warnings have already begun to expire, most ending by noon. But more than 100 million people were still under those alerts on Saturday morning.
Nearly 6,000 U.S. flights were canceled and nearly 12,000 delayed on Friday, according to FlightAware.
Greyhound bus service warned Thursday night that trips in the Midwest or northern Northeast could be canceled or disrupted. The company listed nearly 20 affected cities in its alert and advised riders to check busracker.greyhound.com for the latest information on specific routes.
Amtrak said Friday morning that the severe weather “caused several Amtrak service and cancellations between now and Sunday, Dec. 25.” The train company said affected passengers should be able to board trains departing at the same time or on another day.
Those staying at home are also dealing with the storm’s effects.
More than 1.6 million homes and businesses across the country were without power on Saturday as arctic and winter storms knocked out power lines. The storm is hitting parts of the Midwest and East, bringing heavy snow, blizzards and flooding along the Northeast Coast, as well as frigid temperatures. It is expected to last until Sunday.
Weather also affects holiday gifts.
The U.S. Postal Service, UPS, FedEx and Amazon have all recently said the weather is disrupting operations.
USPS says it has temporarily closed 89 post offices, UPS warns of “some delivery and pickup services” may be affected and Amazon “temporarily shutting down” some of its sites in affected regions. FedEx said it was experiencing “significant disruption” at two of its processing centers and that packages expected to be delivered on Saturday may be delayed.
— CNN’s Aya Elamroussi, Forrest Brown, Karla Cripps, hayley brink and Chris Isidore contributed to this report.