What Is this Person Talking About?

While sitting in the PDX airport waiting to go to LA, I overheard the following conversation. One woman asked another person the following question: "Is the Portland OREGON airport an all-weather airport?" What could possibly be the answer to that? Would you want to go to any airport that had its commercial flights fly in any weather? That means they will put you on a plane in ice, snow, hail, earthquakes, torrential rain and/or any other natural weather related disasters in the making. The only all weather airport I know of is a Navy Aircraft Carrier, and that is not what I want my friendly commercial airport to be.