"I was scheduled to fly from Philadelphia to Chicago. Philadelphia weather was completely clear, but Chicago apparently had snowy weather all day. During boarding, the pilot said there was a short window of time that we could take off because Chicago was limiting their arrivals."
"Since airlines have awful boarding systems, it took too much time to board and we missed the window. We [deplaned]. For the next 8 or 9 hours, the airline delayed the flight a half-hour every half-hour until they just canceled it around 10 p.m. Since they didn't cancel any flights to Chicago, all of the passengers for the next flights to Chicago also showed up at the airport. By the end of the evening, there were 4 or 5 planes full of passengers for the day's flights to Chicago all in one general seating area. It was super crowded and miserable."
Yikes! I don't envy anybody stuck there.