[Leatherboy2006]

This just happened to me in Chicago going back to Dallas a couple weeks ago, we pushed off the gate at Ohare for DFW, taxi'd and was told that a storm moving through dfW had closed airport and airtraffic. We could be delayed about an hour or so on ground at Ohare. People were fine for about an hour, then capt. came on and said that due to how severe the storms were we could be delayed further on ground at OHare due to backed up traffic now going into DFW. People started demanding crew to return to terminal. Crew was saying they would try but was unlikely and plus things could change. 10minutes after that Capt. came on and announced thanks to a different routing he was offered by ATC we would leave as soon as he could get the plane on runway. Had they listened to the passengars and went right back to the gate we would have never left for DFW for another 4-5 hours. The longer route added about 45minutes to flight but we still got home at reasonable hour.