So I guess the five-hour point is where my patience runs out. Lady next to me just dropped an open bottle of lotion all over my pants and jacket. 
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Pilot says POWER IS BACK in terminals F and E!!! As my colleagues have been reporting, the root cause was a fire. We are making progress (slowly) toward eventually getting off this plane, more than 5 hours later.pic.twitter.com/z3qB4YET9W
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To be clear, we still aren't moving. But cause for hope that we may eventually get off of this plane
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I can't overemphasize how exceedingly patient my fellow passengers have been - esp the young ones. And crew/pilot have been GREAT. But we have also all now been on this full
@Delta plane since we boarded at 11:45 am and there hasn't been food or water since late afternoon.120 replies 461 retweets 1,358 likesShow this thread -
Hearing there are still 16 planes full of people ahead of us
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Pilot, just now: "I still think we're quite a ways from getting deplaned... I certainly thought it'd be taken care of by now... not really sure how long it's gonna take for us to get there." Still no food/water. Toilets have been dumped so won't overflow. We passed 6-hour mark.
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It's also totally unclear what happens to us once we actually get off -
@hertz has promised me a rental car, but even if they're waiting for me, the rental car shuttle isn't running. And is there any food when we do get there?9 replies 11 retweets 172 likesShow this thread -
There is a gate waiting for us! We are being instructed to take our seats and fasten our seatbelts... applause from the plane when the pilot comes on the intercompic.twitter.com/7pTxgnlTtY
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FALSE ALARM: The fire marshal says nobody can go into the terminal so we have to stay on the plane. Pilot going outside to investigate. OMG.
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So everyone's still calm. Mostly.pic.twitter.com/qPDXgceFOe
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