One woman drove from Portland to Oakland to pick up her 78-year-old mother who was stranded after two Southwest flight cancellations.
Her daughter and a family friend drove from Portland at 4 p.m. Monday to get her, arriving in Oakland at 2 a.m.
"I think it's just the sheer size of this storm. It's just the fact that this one started west swept east and impacted almost every single one of our largest airports," said Jay McVay.Southwest continues canceling thousands of flights across US, including Bay Area airports Hurst is commending individual Southwest employees who she says stayed with her mother until she got a shuttle to take her to a hotel room that Hurst paid for, where from out of state she DoorDashed her mother food.
"Luckily she had someone who was trying to help her out from home but what if she didn't have that? What if I didn't have the means to put her in a hotel," she continued."It wouldn't have been so bad if I wasn't like partly handicapped but I felt really stranded and alone until someone stepped up to help me," said Hill who is trying to get home to Phoneix.
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