Travelers also were affected as far away as Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, where United Airlines slowed operations in anticipation of poor weather, United spokesman Matt Triaca said. Triaca is based in Chicago but spoke from Little Rock, Ark., where he said ice was about an inch thick on the runways. Little Rock Airport manager Phillip Launius had no immediate count of how many flights had been canceled by late morning. American Airlines had canceled nearly 200 of flights at Dallas-Fort Worth because of weather problems elsewhere, said spokesman Mark Slitt. Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Tuesday's storm was worse than one two weeks ago because it spread over a larger area.
Roads are like skating rinks.
It's just catastrophic. Throughout central Arkansas, stalled and abandoned vehicles hampered the highway department's efforts to clear roads, said highway department spokesman Randy Ort. East of Albuquerque, travelers had to seek shelter along Interstate 40 and motels that normally would have plenty of empty rooms on Christmas night were busy. They're holiday travelers trying to get out of the snow. All Rights Reserved.