Thunderstorms lingered above New York airports on Saturday. LaGuardia took a hard blow. The FAA issued a short ground stop on LGA, Newark, and JFK. Officials cited a staffing issue. They lifted it fast. But the fallout was done. Hundreds of flights at LaGuardia never took off. Nationwide, over a thousand flights ran behind schedule. Another scores of got scrubbed. Delta took the hardest hit. Airlines counted over a thousand disruptions in just a 48-hour span. A line of rough weather kept battering its main hub.