Holiday returns bumpy today?

0 Comments | USA TODAY, November, 2007 | by Marisol Bello

Thanksgiving holiday travelers had few problems getting home Sunday, but thunderstorms and heavy rains spreading through the South and East could disrupt travel for passengers returning today.

Downpours could cause isolated airport delays in what has been an otherwise smooth holiday travel season, said David Castelveter, spokesman for the Air Transport Association, an airline trade group. "But none that would cripple the system," he said.

Heavy storms in Louisiana were expected to reach Georgia and the Carolinas by this morning, said Mark Ressler, a meteorologist with The Weather Channel. He said the storms would lessen to heavy rain during the day as the weather pattern spread north and east toward Ohio, New England and the mid-Atlantic states.

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