Travelers on the West Coast are no exception to the impacts from the major winter storm sweeping the other side of the country.
It's somewhat of a "perfect storm" hitting on the busiest travel day of the week before Christmas, both in the air and on the roads.
"It's been 24 hours for us because we are two hours ahead of time," said Billie Cowley, an Iowa resident. Cowley, her husband and their four kids, slept at SFO overnight unexpectedly, stuck in travel limbo, as a "once in a generation" storm pummels parts of the Midwest and East Coast.Bay Area airports see cancellations, delays as powerful winter storm disrupts holiday travel
From the small town of Fayette, Iowa, they hopped on a plane in Des Moines Thursday, got delayed and booked on a different flight to Denver, where they waited and waited and finally flew standby on a flight to San Francisco -- the closest they could get to Sacramento, where they're supposed to leave for Maui on Christmas Eve.They were finally able to get a car service to bring them to family in Yuba City where they'll wait for their flight to Maui on Saturday.
"We left Iowa in a blizzard basically," she said. "We knew this was not going to be easy, so you have to take it with a grain of salt. And I look at all of these families with little, little babies that don't understand, and we've done it before. I'm just grateful that our kids are old enough. They have things to keep them occupied."
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