Travelers express frustration after hundreds of flights canceled due to shutdown

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00:00so I had a flight this morning 8.05 on Air Canada I was in Connecticut I take an

00:09uber to get here in time when I'm in the uber all of a sudden they canceled my

00:14flight so it says you were rebooked so I'm in the uber and I'm like oh okay

00:19great I'm rebooked for an hour earlier so I'm panicking will I even make it to

00:23Newark and catch the flight 7.05 now was the flight so I say to the uber guy I'm

00:29like we got to go fast then all of a sudden I pull up the whole itinerary

00:32are you ready for this they rebooked me at a JFK an hour earlier with a 11 hour

00:39layover in some place called port of Spain crazy crazy so of course I can't

00:45take that flight wouldn't get in until tomorrow morning and I was only going

00:50away for the weekend for two days so we don't end there right so I'm calm I'm

00:54calm I'm I'm a surgeon I'm used to chaos you have to just think logically so I'm

00:59like okay I talked to a few people here they're saying if I were you I would not

01:02travel over the next three days it's gonna get worse TSA said that to me and

01:06the airline counters said it like unofficially they can't right but they

01:11gave me their take so I'm like okay I'll go get a rental car because I have a

01:15Connecticut license and the flight was canceled they won't rent me a car

01:19guess what I have to do I'm going to U-Haul and I'm gonna drive a truck

01:24across country to get back to Utah because I have to be back by Tuesday