a blizzard

As maddening and crowded as the current air travel experience is on a normal day—let alone in the aftermath of a blizzard—all those who long for the supposed golden age of air travel should probably remember that most of us wouldn't have been able to afford to fly back then, and our choices of times and destinations would have been much more limited. (Frank Rich's piece from December 26 on "Who Killed the Disneyland Dream?", about a middle-class family who filmed their trip to the Happiest Place on Earth in 1956, underscores just how unusual air travel was for even the middle class back then.)

Read more: http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2010/12/29/weather-how-the-troubled-response-to-the-blizzard-is-just-the-beginning-for-a-warmer-world/#ixzz1A6FfGZOg