ATLANTA – Severe thunderstorms triggered travel headaches across the Southeast on Friday evening, bringing flash flooding and hail to Atlanta and causing numerous delays at the nation’s busiest airport.
Delta, based in Atlanta, said in a statement on Saturday morning that 90 flights were diverted to other airports in the Southeast on Friday evening as the storm swept through just before 8 p.m., dropping quarter-inch hail and microburst winds.
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In addition, the airline had to temporarily pull 100 planes from service at its Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport hub to inspect for any hail damage…