{"id":14024,"date":"2017-12-17T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T04:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/airport-power-restored-in-atlanta-but-thousands-are-stranded\/"},"modified":"2017-12-17T20:27:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T04:27:00","slug":"airport-power-restored-in-atlanta-but-thousands-are-stranded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/airport-power-restored-in-atlanta-but-thousands-are-stranded\/","title":{"rendered":"Airport Power Restored In Atlanta But Thousands Are Stranded"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Passengers wait after the lights went out at Hartfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Sunday. Many travelers were stuck in grounded planes for hours.<\/p>\n

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Updated 12:55 a.m. ET Monday<\/strong><\/p>\n

People traveling through Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport struggled to get home Sunday after a power outage there forced hundreds of flight cancellations.<\/p>\n

Officials announced that power had been fully restored to the airport shortly after midnight.<\/p>\n

The power went out early Sunday afternoon and hundreds of flights at the world’s busiest airport ended up canceled. Many travelers were stuck in grounded planes for hours.<\/p>\n

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Power is back ON in Atrium and Concourses T, A and B!<\/p>\n

\u2014 Atlanta Airport (@ATLairport) December 18, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Shortly after 10 p.m., Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed tweeted<\/a> that all passengers “have been safely de-planed.”<\/p>\n

Power was restored in some sections of the airport after 11 p.m.<\/p>\n

Others, like Stephen Mack, were stranded in crowded terminals, Johnny Kauffman of member station WABE reported.<\/p>\n

“We are all hungry, tired, frustrated,” Mack said.<\/p>\n

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After 10.5 hour-long international flight departing at 4:55 am ET, we now approach hour 5 on the tarmac at Atlanta. No food. But everyone is holding it together. pic.twitter.com\/tcPkvGtdP9<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Ellen L. Carmichael (@ellencarmichael) December 18, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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According to airport officials, Georgia Power said the outage was tied to a fire that caused extensive damage to an underground electrical facility<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Delta Air Lines said about 900 of its flights were canceled<\/a> Sunday and about 300 flights will be canceled Monday. Southwest Airlines cancelled all of its flights in and out of Atlanta<\/a>. And the effects were felt at other airports around the country.<\/p>\n