For the first day or so I was pretty unimpressed with the media in their constant efforts to isolate a "lack of preparation" during what was clearly more snow more quickly than we have had for a long time.
However I am at a loss to understand why the second runway hasn't been cleared by now?
It certainly seems that the balance between infrastructure being there by the country for the country and it just being a profit centre has swung too far in the wrong direction.
An earlier poster mentioned using trains to get passengers to where the planes are. Can you imagine how that would go given the number of different private companies involved? It would be a car crash, but when there is no effective single control of such big elements of infrastructure you can't get them to interact like that.