The airport said in an Instagram post that all flights to and from the airport would be grounded from late Tuesday through late on Feb. 20, including commercial, cargo and general aviation flights. It suggested travelers contact their airlines to get up-to-date flight information. The shutdown is likely to create significant disruptions given the duration and the size of the metropolitan area. El Paso, a border city with a population of nearly 700,000 and larger when you include the surrounding metro area, is hub of cross-border commerce alongside neighboring Ciudad Juarez in Mexico.
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In other news, every coal miner in the United States could fit into Angel Stadium in Anaheim and there'd still be room left over. It's a dying industry whose externalities vastly outweigh its benefits, yet it's the priority of the U.S. government to prop it up for some reason.