Denver Updates

As noted in today's Morning Sweep, Denver International is working to open two runways by noon local time today. Snow stories include Unhappy Record at Down-and-Out DIA (Rocky Mountain News); Breakdown of Breakdown at Airport (Rocky Mountain News);Colorado Springs Airport Tries To Get Moving After Bilzzard (KRDO); and this excellent slideshow of photos from the airport by the Denver Post. The first shot has two stranded passengers relaxing, if that's the word, in a luggage transport.

This was a majorly serious event, with 4,700 passengers stranded at the airport and the Red Cross and National Guard bringing in supplies including bottled water. Best quote is from airport spokesman Chuck Cannon in the Rocky Mountain News:

"I would frankly like to strangle the person who came up with the term that this is an all-weather airport," Cannon said.

Don't feel bad; you probably can't operate through plagues of locusts or volcano eruptions either.