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Here is an animation or the airspace around Chicago during the Blizzard of 2011 that occurred on Feburary 1st and 2nd, 2011. An excerpt from this video appeared on ABC World News with Diane Sawyer the evening of February 2nd. Please watch in fullscreen HD for the best effect.
On the lower left, air traffic for a typical Monday and Tuesday to and from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport (KORD). On the upper right, Monday and Tuesday, February 1st and 2nd, 2011, during Chicago's Blizzard of 2011.
You can see traffic diminish as the storm arrives, falling to nothing in the late evening. In the third part, the typical Tuesday begins with hudreds of flights in and out of ORD... Tuesday after/during the blizzard? No flights.
I'm glad we weren't there for that.
here she was stranded at O Hare without being able to speak a word of English
on her way back home to Russia. She finally found someone who could speak
Russian and she had to stay at the airport and take a flight that went
through Germany and then catch another flight to Germany.