In a flash they were all gone, morning flights to Seattle disappeared from the monitors at San Francisco International Thursday morning after an ice storm shut down the runways at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
More than 3,400 flights within, into or out of the U.S. were canceled Friday, according to the tracking site FlightAware, causing more mayhem as travelers try to make it home for the holidays.
"This is not like a snow day when you were a kid," President Joe Biden warned Thursday in the Oval Office after a briefing from federal officials."This is serious stuff.""Freezing rain has arrived in western Washington and will continue to bring icy conditions to the region throughout the morning hours," the National Weather Service's Seattle office wrote in their morning forecast. that one runway had been reopened by 8 a.m.
Cooper told the paper the ice was so thick on the runways that crews had been making multiple passes with deicing liquid to get to bare concrete.
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