Atlanta airport outage cancels El Paso flight

UPDATE: Delta flight 851 out of El Paso at 6:20 a.m. to Atlanta was cancelled. At 1:40 p.m., Delta flight 2136 is expected to leave El Paso headed to Atlanta.

ORIGINAL STORY: When El Paso resident Brianna Tolbert woke up on Sunday morning, she imagined she’d end the night with her family in South Carolina.

“I’m definitely trying to get home for the holidays,” Tolbert said.

Instead, Tolbert was stuck at the El Paso International Airport for hours on end.

“I’m mad,” she told ABC-7. “I’m still mad.”

Her connecting flight was one of near one hundred flights canceled in Atlanta on Sunday after an afternoon power outage.

Tolbert stood in line with dozens of other El Paso and Las Cruces residents and visitors stranded by the Atlanta travel delay.

“Everything is up in limbo,” said Rashida Ahmed, from Las Cruces.

Ahmed and her husband were attempting to meet up with her daughter in Atlanta before heading on a family vacation.

“It’s frustrating that you’re trying to spend a week with your children and you’ve already lost two days,” Ahmed said.

She wasn’t the only passenger traveling from Las Cruces.

“I’m just really tired,” said Michael Canton. “I just want to get home. I haven’t eaten anything.”

Canton was attempting to meet his family in Rhode Island, when his connecting flight in Atlanta was canceled, like so many others.

“Everyone is pretty annoyed,” Canton said. “People from all over the world are stranded here.”

However, in a line of frustrated travelers, Florida resident Dwight Christie approached the situation with a calm mindset.

“Things happen,” Christie said. “There’s nothing we can do about it. I might be here for a couple days. When I get home, I get home.”