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Passengers say winter weather caused lots of cancellations and major frustrations at D/FW Airport.(Photo: WFAA)
Another winter storm heading for the northeast dumped freezing rain on north Texas and forced the cancellations of around 1,000 flights Saturday at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
It was the second day of major disruption following the cancellation of 600 flights Friday at one of the nation's busiest airline hubs.
Some 5,000 travelers spent the night at the airport, spokesman David Magana said, according to the Associated Press. Flight tracker Flightaware.com reported 974 flights canceled by Saturday after at Dallas-Fort Worth.
The airport provided cots, blankets and toiletries to the passengers, plus kept concession stands open over night.
"Extremely frustrating," Katie Kacarab, who was heading back to California, told WFAA-TV said. "Extremely!"
"We were stuck on the tarmac for three hours. Told we had to get the plane de-iced," she said. "That we were in line, getting ready to do it -- it was going to take 20 minutes. We became plane No. 7, plane No. 10."
Kacarab said passengers on her American Airlines flight were asked to leave the plane and head back to the ticket counter, where they waited there for an additional four hours.
Passengers say winter weather caused lots of cancellations and major frustrations at D/FW Airport.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: WFAA)
Although the Dallas area remained under a winter advisory until the evening, the National Weather Service said a warm front would bring mostly rain to Texas, with a wintry mix from the Red River Valley to southern Ohio valley.
North of the front, snow is expected from the southern Plains to northern Ohio Valley, the weather service said, with up to 8 inches in some areas. Forecasters said Kansas City, Mo., St. Louis, Indianapolis and Youngstown, Ohio, could get from 4 to 7 inches.
Once again, this winter storm is taking dead aim on New England. Snow is expected to begin Sunday afternoon in northern New Jersey and New England, changing to freezing rain and then rain along Interstate 95, weatherbug.com reports.
Only snow is expected from central and eastern New York into New England, adding to Boston's total this winter that is already over 100 inches. The storm is expected to move off to the Atlantic on Monday.
Contributing: Demond Fernandez, WFAA-TV, Dallas
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