Once it was announced that all flights were cancelled for the day, some people rustled around and tried to get hotel rooms or rent cars. I don't know the success/failure ratio, but I do know that pretty much all the hotels ended up totally booked. We were warned that the snow might not stop and the likelyhood of getting transporation back to the airport the next day was slim. Like I said, I really wanted to secure my place in line for the soonest flight out the next morning , and I didn't want to get stranded at a 2nd hotel. Of course the next day I found out the soonest I was going to get the hell out of Denver was the 24th ( 3 days later). That's when I started to do my own rallying and rustling around.