Well when we launched that night we had no alternate, so I assume most guys were in the same boat. We had some extra gas and got in early and got lucky - the guys behind us on final went around and it was chaos after that.
But yeah, launching the entire inbound fleet with no alternate and no extra gas tends to screw up the system when a thunderstorm parks itself over the field.
I can only imagine that at some point this week there was a meeting with a GOC weather guy at the end of the table doing the carpet dance.
For the storms on Thursday night we had an alternate and a LOT of fuel. You figure at SOME point they might figure out this whole system reliability thing....