Weather Problems outbound Feb 16

We had purchased tickets to fly to Los Angeles from Dulles on February 17. By Feb 15, there was a winter storm watch for the entire metro area covering the time of our flight. 

We changed our flight to Feb 16. It cost more than twice what we paid for our original ticket. I detected a note of extortionate glee in the voice of the United employee who made the change.

 Sure enough it did snow (see image - it wasn't very deep at Dulles) and the flight originally booked was cancelled. People who made it to the airport on time got a free change in booking but we could not have made use of this as the cruise ship would have sailed without us.