Blizzard of 1982
I remember this so much as we flew out to Hawaii, and the flight I was on was the first flight to take off from Stapelton Airport after it was reopened from the Blizzard. My mom and dad had three kids, aged 7, 9 and 12, and we spent 36 hours in the closed airport. When we finally left we could not get seats together on the plane from Stapelton to LA (as every possible seat was filled). My Dad was very worried about having all of his kids spread out across the plane, and so he sat me down and firmly stated that "Matt, you don't have to scream this entire flight, I am only 9 rows up from you and you will be fine." (paraphrase, not actual quote). Both people on either side of me asked if he wanted to change seats with them, he then sat my sister and my brother on either side of me, and told my brother that "if you needed to vomit, use the little bag and don't turn your head to the side like you did last time." The person this his side asked if he wanted to change seats. in the end he got all three kids, himself and my mom in one row. Impressive move!!