A pair of storms packing heavy snow and hurricane-force winds wreaked havoc on Wednesday for Americans on the move for the Thanksgiving holiday.On one of the busiest travel days of the year in America — an estimated 55 million people planning to drive or fly — highways in the West and Midwest were closed because of snow and hundreds of flights were cancelled.A cherished staple — giant, colourful character balloons floating through Manhattan during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade — might be grounded for Thursday's festivities because of gusting winds in the Big Apple.
A snowstorm that caused near white-out blizzard conditions in Colorado dumped a foot of snow in Wyoming on Tuesday and was barreling eastward toward the Great Lakes region in the central US.Ploughs worked through the night at the airport in Minneapolis, a snow-savvy city girding for possibly its biggest November dump ever.
'Thanksgiving is over'
At the airport in Denver, which was hit with a foot of snow, nearly 500 flights were cancelled and another 500 were delayed.On Monday night, 1,000 people slept at the airport.Among them was Sonya Washington, bound for Thanksgiving with family in Atlanta, who sat on a plane for two hours as the snow fell until her flight was cancelled. The next possible direct trip is Thursday night.Out west, a dangerous storm hit southern Oregon and northern California that meteorologists are calling a "bomb cyclone" — a rapidly intensifying winter storm caused by a precipitous drop in atmospheric pressure.It dumped a foot of snow, forced roads to close and prompted warnings for people to just stay home.
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