Severe storm in South Florida leaves passengers stranded at airports

Stormy weather on Sunday caused a spate of delays at Florida airports, leaving thousands of passengers stranded.

According to the Storm Forecast Center, airports in Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Orlando have seen hours of delays due to damaging winds and severe storm threats, including tornadoes and hail across South Florida. According to poweroutage.us, more than 7,000 people were left without power on Monday morning.

“An example of two or more severe hail could accompany the stronger storms over the Florida Peninsula over the next few hours,” the Storm Prediction Center predicted late Sunday.

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A total of 142 flights were canceled and 70 were delayed Sunday due to severe storms, a Miami Airport spokesman confirmed to the Miami Herald, noting that airline planes include American, JetBlue, Delta, Frontier, United and Southwest.

Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport also reported Sunday that there were a number of delayed arriving and departing departures, and Orlando International Airport tweeted a similar advice, pointing out that passengers may experience delayed departures and arrivals.

Flight delays have led to bookings for rental cars, buses and hotels which have taken off a lot and stranded a lot at the airport.

‘I like being stranded at the Miami airport with literally no fixed responses from your employees, the way to delay flights and not let staff work for delayed flights. You’re doing a real job, let me tell you, ‘tweeted one traveler on JetBlue.

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Another noted that he was stranded at Miami International Airport for more than ten hours “without pilots or flight crew”, saying it was the “most horrific aviation experience”, and even tweeting the treatment was “inhuman” with ‘ a photo of people queuing for food Monday morning at 1 a.m. at a vending machine.