Weary travelers still dealing with canceled flights, missing luggage Tuesday

Caroline Kiefer, 33, flew to Chicago from Austin, Texas, on Christmas Day. It took her until Tuesday to get her luggage — and her vintage roller skates. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

The baggage claim area at Midway Airport on Tuesday resembled the final scene in “Raiders of the Lost Ark” in which the crated ark is wheeled into a cavernous warehouse full of thousands of identical crates, presumably to be lost forever.

Or, as Caroline Kiefer, put it, the hundreds upon hundreds of ownerless bags looked like a “bag farm.”