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Wednesday marks the busiest travel day of the Thanksgiving week, with millions taking to the skies and slick roadways to visit loved ones over the holiday.
But severe weather is already impacting plans, with blizzard conditions hitting the Midwest and Great Lakes states and storms in the Intermountain West making car travel hazardous. More than 1,000 flights were already delayed or canceled across the nation on Wednesday because of weather systems moving across the country.
Around 82 million people are on the move, with the busiest travel days expected today and on Sunday and Monday after the holiday.
At least 73 million – or nearly 90 percent of Thanksgiving travelers – are set to make their journeys by road, as six mill
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