<p>Power was restored to the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta in the early hours of December 18, Georgia Power announced</a>, after an earlier outage grounded flights and stranded thousands of passengers.</p><p>More than 1,100 flights</a> to and from Atlanta were canceled, with many diverted to nearby airports. Georgia Power said</a> the outage “may have involved a fire which caused extensive damage in an underground electrical facility.”</p><p>Power was restored to one concourse at around 7:45 pm</a>, more than six hours after the outage occurred in the afternoon. This footage shows people cheering as power was restored to part of the airport. Credit: Instagram/Tariq Rasheed Ali via Storyful</p><br />
