{"id":2007755,"date":"2023-08-22T04:29:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T08:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hurricane-hilary-causes-more-than-6000-us-flights-to-be-canceled-or-delayed\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T04:30:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T08:30:49","slug":"hurricane-hilary-causes-more-than-6000-us-flights-to-be-canceled-or-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hurricane-hilary-causes-more-than-6000-us-flights-to-be-canceled-or-delayed\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Hilary disrupts 6,000+ US flights."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhurricane-hilary-causes-more-than-6000-us-flights-to-be-canceled-or-delayed%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2007755&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div data-post-content=\"true\" class=\"post_content\" id=\"post_content\">\n<p>More than 6,000 flights were delayed or canceled across the United States because of Hurricane Hilary, \u200cleaving tens of thousands of passengers stranded.<\/p>\n<p>By the morning of \u2064Aug. \u206420, the hurricane had weakened to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tropical-storm-claudette-floods-parts-of-gulf-coast\/\" title=\"Tropical storm Claudette floods parts of Gulf Coast\">tropical storm<\/a>, making it the first tropical storm to\u2064 hit California in 84 years, as\u2064 reported by CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>The tropical storm made landfall in California on the afternoon of Aug. 20 and then moved \u2062to the Southwest, where it\u200c was expected to bring\u200b a year&#8217;s worth of rain to Nevada and Arizona.<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode\">\n<div class=\"border-comp-divider mb-4 mr-4 w-full max-w-[500px] border px-5 py-4 text-[16px] leading-[20px] text-[#262626] md:float-left\">\n<div class=\"mb-3 font-sans text-[16px] font-semibold uppercase leading-[19px] text-[#2F2F2F]\">Related Stories<\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-4 flex gap-2\">\n<div class=\"grow\">\n<div class=\"mb-1 line-clamp-2\">\n            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/state-of-emergency-declared-for-california-as-hurricane-hilary-downgraded-5477157\">State of Emergency Declared for California as Hurricane Hilary Downgraded<\/a>\n          <\/div>\n<div class=\"text-comp-caption text-[14px] leading-[18px]\">8\/19\/2023<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"shrink-0 basis-[120px]\">\n          <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/state-of-emergency-declared-for-california-as-hurricane-hilary-downgraded-5477157\"><\/a>\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-4 flex gap-2\">\n<div class=\"grow\">\n<div class=\"mb-1 line-clamp-2\">\n            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/california-braces-for-hurricane-hilarys-catastrophic-impacts-5476768\">California Braces \u2062for Hurricane\u2064 Hilary&#8217;s\u200b &#8216;Catastrophic&#8217; Impacts<\/a>\n          <\/div>\n<div class=\"text-comp-caption text-[14px] leading-[18px]\">8\/19\/2023<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"shrink-0 basis-[120px]\">\n          <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/california-braces-for-hurricane-hilarys-catastrophic-impacts-5476768\"><\/a>\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Catastrophic flash-flood \u200balerts were issued for mountainous and desert areas, such as Nevada and parts of California, where the main concerns were debris flows \u2063and mudslides.<\/p>\n<p>On \u200bAug. 20, a \u200btotal of 5,239 flights\u2063 were delayed and 1,055 flights were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/beijing-sees-worst-sandstorm-in-a-decade\/\" title=\"Beijing Sees Worst Sandstorm In A Decade\">canceled due<\/a> to Hilary, according to flight-tracking website FlightAware.<\/p>\n<h2>US Airports Grapple with Thousands \u2062of Flight Cancellations and Delays<\/h2>\n<p>Airports in the\u2063 Southwestern United States bore the\u200c brunt \u2063of the delays \u2062and cancellations,\u200b caused by heavy rain and\u200b strong winds \u2063in the region.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You\u2062 have to remember this portion\u200d of \u200cthe country is not accustomed\u200c to the amount of rainfall, wind, and possible thunderstorms like the rest of the country might be,&#8221; the Federal Aviation Administration\u2063 wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-pac-blasts-trump-for-fight-with-iowa-governor\/\" title=\"DeSantis PAC criticizes Trump over clash with Iowa governor.\">social media\u200b post<\/a> on Aug. 20.<\/p>\n<p>San Diego International Airport\u200b experienced 252 \u2064cancellations that day, accounting for over \u200b70 percent\u2063 of its flights, as reported by FlightAware.<\/p>\n<p>The airport\u200c also\u200d reported that 37 \u200cpercent of departures and\u2064 41 percent of arrivals \u200bwere canceled in the aftermath of Hilary.<\/p>\n<p>Harry Reid International \u200dAirport in Las Vegas had\u200c 348 canceled flights, \u2064which represented more\u200b than 40 percent of its total\u200d flights on \u2062the same day.<\/p>\n<p>It had\u2063 the highest percentage of cancellations among all airports in the country, with at least 20 percent of departures and 22 percent \u200dof arrivals affected.<\/p>\n<p>Other airports in the Southwestern United States were also heavily impacted by cancellations as the storm swept through\u200c the area.<\/p>\n<p>Hollywood Burbank Airport, formerly known as Bob Hope Airport, reported cancellations for 41 percent of \u200cdepartures and arrivals.<\/p>\n<p>Orange County\u2019s John \u2062Wayne \u2063Airport in \u200bSanta Ana, California, saw 20 percent of \u200ddepartures\u2062 and 21 percent of\u200d arrivals canceled.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles International Airport experienced relatively <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hurricane-hilary-causes-more-than-6000-us-flights-to-be-canceled-or-delayed\/\" title=\"Hurricane Hilary disrupts 6,000+ US flights.\">fewer flight disruptions due<\/a>\u2064 to\u200c the\u200b storm, with \u200bonly\u2064 3 percent \u200bof departures and 4 percent of arrivals canceled, and 11 percent of departures and 10 percent of arrivals delayed.<\/p>\n<p>Further north, Sacramento International\u200c Airport had \u206224 percent of departures\u200c and 18 percent of arrivals canceled,\u200c while Oakland International Airport had 18 percent\u200b of departures and arrivals affected.<\/p>\n<h2>Southwest \u2064Airlines \u2063Takes the Biggest Hit from \u200dthe Tropical Storm<\/h2>\n<p>According to Business Insider, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-inaugural-like-baghdad-green-zone-red-zone-military-checkpoints-to-enter-and-leave-downtown-d-c-bridges-into-city-to-be-closed\/\" title=\"Biden Inaugural Like Baghdad: Green Zone, Red Zone, Military Checkpoints to Enter and Leave Downtown D.C., Bridges Into City to Be Closed\">major airlines<\/a>, including Southwest Airlines and American Airlines, \u2064were severely impacted by the storm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 6,000 flights were disrupted in the US due to Hurricane Hilary, leaving countless passengers stranded. CBS News reported that by Aug. 20, the hurricane had weakened to a tropical storm, marking the first time in 84 years that California experienced such a storm. Afterward, the storm impacted the Southwest region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"featured_media":2007756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2007755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2007755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2007756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}