{"id":223243,"date":"2026-03-17T05:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T05:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/223243\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T05:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T05:23:07","slug":"choir-trapped-in-ca-when-massive-snowstorm-cancels-flight-we-need-your-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/223243\/","title":{"rendered":"Choir Trapped In CA When Massive Snowstorm Cancels Flight: &#8216;We Need Your Help&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A choir from the Twin Cities suburbs escaped the Minnesota winter for a competition in Orange County, only to be trapped on the West Coast when a massive storm dropped over a foot of snow on parts of the south metro Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur flights home tonight are canceled and we can\u2019t get back to Minnesota until later this week via plane rides and charter buses across the country,\u201d Bloomington Kennedy Choirs explained Sunday in a social media post. \u201cWe\u2019re anticipating about $30,000 in additional costs that we didn\u2019t expect and we need your help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 700 flights were canceled Sunday at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flightaware.com\/live\/cancelled\/yesterday\/KMSP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to FlightAware<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The show choir from Bloomington Kennedy High School spent the weekend competing in the Los Alamitos High School Xtravaganza event and celebrating a grand championship win with a trip to Disneyland.<\/p>\n<p>As of Monday evening, the choir, which has dozens of members, planned to travel from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City to Denver as they made their way toward home, according to an Instagram story posted by Bloomington Kennedy Choirs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A choir from the Twin Cities suburbs escaped the Minnesota winter for a competition in Orange County, only&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-223243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}