RedNGold wrote:It seems odd to me that a huge airport - busiest or second busiest - would not have the necessary equipment to remove enough snow in order to avoid mass cancellations like has been happening lately.

Washington DC, which reliably gets at least one blizzard or two each year, is perfectly content to roll over and play dead for days every time.  I've lived here for way too long and it has always been that way; no lessons are ever learned.