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| A must-vehicle crash amid on Interstate 70 in western Indiana on Saturday. A huge swath of the Midwest is under winter storm warnings today as heavy snow delays travel for many. |
Since so many people are traveling this holiday weekend, the Scrooge mood has hit early for many.
The winter storm warnings Saturday stretched from eastern South Dakota to Michigan.
The relative center of this winter weather zone is Chicago, The windy city serves as a hub for American, United, Frontier, Southwest and Spirit airlines.
You can imagine the mess.
As of Saturday morning, more than 1,000 flights were canceled at Chicago airports, CBS News reported. I imagine things later got even worse for flights in and out of Chicago as heavy snow with very poor visibility lasted all afternoon.
As of 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time, FlightAware said the number of flights today canceled at just O'Hare was 1,038.
For the U.S. as a whole, FlightAware said there had been 2,166 flight cancelations and 18,322 delays as of late this afternoon. So if someone you expected to arrive at your house today says it won't happen, they're probably not lying. It's nothing personal. Just the weather.
Of course, highways are slow, too. As many as 30 vehicles crashed into each other on slick Interstate 70 in western Indiana. Social media is rife with images of cars in ditches and vehicles with smashed and dented fenders, or worse.
The winter storm warning affected 32 million people and winter weather advisories along the storms edges covered another 20 million, USA Today reported.
The snow is expected to dwindle off and end by late tonight in places from Chicago west, and during the morning in locations farther east, like northern Indiana and most of Michigan.
A new winter storm is expected to hit a large swath of the Midwest and Northeast on Tuesday.
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