Winter Storm And Shutdown Could Snarl Holiday Travel
CNN reports:
As Christmas approaches and an expected record number of people across the country set off on their journeys, they may encounter travel trouble: winter weather combined with a possible government shutdown that could leave TSA agents and air traffic controllers working without a paycheck. More than 119 million people are expected to travel at least 50 miles from their homes between Saturday and New Year’s Day, AAA projects, which would make it the busiest year-end holiday travel season on record.
And as the human-made threat of a funding crisis looms, Mother Nature is preparing to deliver a dose of winter weather that could impact travel in parts of the country. The storm will begin to impact major metropolitan areas in the Northeast by Friday morning and should last
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