Atlanta Airport Power Outage

[Mick West]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/17/us/atlanta-airport-power-outage/index.html

A power outage at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport has left thousands of passengers at the world's busiest airport stranded in the dark and sitting in planes on the tarmac as incoming and outgoing flights were halted indefinitely.

The Federal Aviation Administration issued a nationwide ground stop for flights to Atlanta at 11:30 a.m. ET Sunday, meaning that planes are being held at their departure airports, the airport said on its verified Twitter account. Many inbound flights to Atlanta are being diverted, including international flights, US Customs and Border Protection said.

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Leading to bizarre conspiracy theories.


Source: https://twitter.com/SaRaAshcraft/status/942526419019628545


Source: https://twitter.com/JayBoz8/status/942524598238826496


Source: https://twitter.com/MelisaA4Trump/status/942522749607608320


Source: https://twitter.com/JaysunKincade/status/942483193185341440


The hashtags relate to this:
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/qanons-calm-before-the-storm

Qanon’s “Calm Before the Storm” (CBTS) refer to a series of cryptic, conspiratorial posts released on 4chan and 8chan authored by a user identified as “Q” or “Qanon” using the tripcode [Q !ITPb.qbhqo]. While conspiracy theories, including some based around pizzagate, have arisen based on the posts, many have mocked the content as a type of prank or live action role-playing (LARP) game.

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I know at least one 9/11 conspiracy theorist that takes Qanon very seriously, but it largely seems to be obvious nonsense, like Pizzagate.