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Nightly News Headlines Denver and area is just about shut down 60 mph plus winds all major hwys closed Ariport closed.
24" or more possible with incrediable drifting

MSg how are you doing
 
Were pretty much snowed in up to our bumpers out here. looks like everyone is gonna have a snow day tomorrow. running stove full bore and peeking outside everyso often wondering how in the hell I'm gonna dig out!
 
Yea, thanks for asking Elk, we are buried up here. Got about 30" so far with 2-3" falling per hour. I got the stove cranked and we are just hunkered down. My internet is super flakey, and the satalite is out. Im glad im stocked on beer, this storm will not be over untill tommorow afternoon, i bet we get at least 48".
 

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My day went like this...
I woke up (thats good right?) and there was about 6 inches of snow. My wife and i both have to work on wendays, she commutes to Estes Park, about 17 miles away, and i commute to boulder, about 40 miles away. Neither of us have the time off to call in, so we go for it. I send her in the truck (4x4 nissan) and i take the car (the new Volvo s40 i get so much greif about on here). So it takes me about 1.5 hours to get to work, so im a little late. The snow realy picks up around 9 am and im starting to get a little nervous. They never plow up here when its snowing on the plains, so im thinking im going to be in trouble in the car. I havent really had to test it this year, its just works out most snow days one of us if off and we just drive the truck. The car has road tires, (factory crap) and its low to the ground. 12 pm rolls around and i decide to get the hell out of dodge. I start to head up the canyon and the snow is getting deeper by the mile. About 15 miles up of the 22 mile canyon the car starts to bottem out. There is atleast a foot of snow on the highway, and the car is plowing virgin snow. You loose alot of control in that situation so i geared it down and spead up to about 25-30 mph. I know if i stop im done and im hiking home. Cell phones dont work in the canyon, and there isnt a soul on the road. The good news is... i made it. And the bettter news is, that car made it. Im totally impressed. No one is going anywhere tommorrow. I hope i have internet, i can deal with out TV, i dont watch it at all, but the internet on the other hand is a different story.

One thing about the snow up here... is that its like dusty powder. Its so dry and light, its gently falls to the ground. I guess the term around here is champane powder, i dont see the champane part, but the powder term fits well.

Robbie, this is only lucky if your visiting it. I deal with snow untill may, not so lucky in my book.
 
beautifull morning.. the snow must have taperd off, eneded up with about 38". Not that untypical for this elevation, but very untypical for denver area. Here are some early morning photos.

One of these shows my woodpile. :(
 

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Syracuse just got the Golden Sow Ball for the 3rd year in a row.
Maybe you guys can have it this year :)
 
What is snow? I seem to remember getting snow in December.....in 1978
 
Those pictures are beautiful. I heard that it's the real fluffy snow, not as heavy as some would have preferred. I really hope that Jan/Feb/March are good to us, we haven't had any moisture all winter. One or two light snows and that's it. It's scary stuff to see my mother in laws road clear in December. There should be a 6ft. drift at the back of her house but I can walk back there.
 
MountainStoveGuy said:
My day went like this...
No one is going anywhere tommorrow. I hope i have internet, i can deal with out TV, i dont watch it at all, but the internet on the other hand is a different story.
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No snow here thank goodness, but also no internet for a week now. Comcast won't say when they intend to restore service. Just great.
 
Good to hear from you, BG. Hope you get your services back before Christmas.

In any event, have a nice one.
 
heh....hope all this turns to rain before it gets to us here in MA! :cheese:

The Best Man at my wedding had an interesting couple days....he has custody of his 3 kids after the divorce. So, the ex wife come up from texas to visit her kids for the first time in years. Gets to his house (just outside of Denver), and promptly gets snowed in...she had to stay there at the house for days! I can imagine the conversations..lol....wasnt an amicable divorce.
 
HarryBack said:
heh....hope all this turns to rain before it gets to us here in MA! :cheese:

The Best Man at my wedding had an interesting couple days....he has custody of his 3 kids after the divorce. So, the ex wife come up from texas to visit her kids for the first time in years. Gets to his house (just outside of Denver), and promptly gets snowed in...she had to stay there at the house for days! I can imagine the conversations..lol....wasnt an amicable divorce.
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She should talk to the "Judge"
 
MountainStoveGuy said:
My day went like this...
I woke up (thats good right?) and there was about 6 inches of snow. My wife and i both have to work on wendays, she commutes to Estes Park, about 17 miles away, and i commute to boulder, about 40 miles away. Neither of us have the time off to call in, so we go for it. I send her in the truck (4x4 nissan) and i take the car (the new Volvo s40 i get so much greif about on here). So it takes me about 1.5 hours to get to work, so im a little late. The snow realy picks up around 9 am and im starting to get a little nervous. They never plow up here when its snowing on the plains, so im thinking im going to be in trouble in the car. I havent really had to test it this year, its just works out most snow days one of us if off and we just drive the truck. The car has road tires, (factory crap) and its low to the ground. 12 pm rolls around and i decide to get the hell out of dodge. I start to head up the canyon and the snow is getting deeper by the mile. About 15 miles up of the 22 mile canyon the car starts to bottem out. There is atleast a foot of snow on the highway, and the car is plowing virgin snow. You loose alot of control in that situation so i geared it down and spead up to about 25-30 mph. I know if i stop im done and im hiking home. Cell phones dont work in the canyon, and there isnt a soul on the road. The good news is... i made it. And the bettter news is, that car made it. Im totally impressed. No one is going anywhere tommorrow. I hope i have internet, i can deal with out TV, i dont watch it at all, but the internet on the other hand is a different story.

One thing about the snow up here... is that its like dusty powder. Its so dry and light, its gently falls to the ground. I guess the term around here is champane powder, i dont see the champane part, but the powder term fits well.

Robbie, this is only lucky if your visiting it. I deal with snow untill may, not so lucky in my book.
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So, nostalgia reigns, in, I think, 83' I beat a storm like this from Utah, doing 80mph to stay ahead from SLC to Aspen. needed to get to the Aspen, a special Nwe Year event, with the highlight of my college years. Beat the storm, but got snowed in. Eisenhower was closed for four days, when I left Aspen in my Volvo 1800ES (still own it) the road was about a foot deep in packed snow. Everytime there was a raw spot, I'd bottom out. Seems my point of gravity was about three inches. Took the Evergreen grade behind a semi with one wheel in the truck's rut and the other somewhere on top. Followed the 18 for two or three hundred miles East of Denver. Almost like having auto drive, I stayed in his left wheel rut.

MGP, if it gets tight, load the 4X4 and go down. Lost a friend "toughing it out", in your area. Take care this is no joke, we're getting it again tonight. Not sure if it is coming your way, but my guess is, YES.
 
Whoops. forgot the most important, GET YOUR BOOTS ON AND CHECK YOUR FLUES!!!!!!!!!! Don't let the fluffy block your flu. Even on a 12/1 pitch roof, you can build a nice pile of fluffy snow, if cold enough, like now, it could bury your stack. 5 foot of snow doesn't have to be dense to pile up and block the outlet.
 
MountainStoveGuy said:
and i take the car (the new Volvo s40 i get so much greif about on here).
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Not from me
Take an XC70 for a ride in some snow ;)

MountainStoveGuy said:
They never plow up here when its snowing on the plains, so im thinking im going to be in trouble in the car.
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I was wondering what the big deal was, we get 2 foot plus around here every few years but roads are passable the next day
Once it starts they plow and dont stop until the snow does, I guess we learned from the Blizzard of 78 that shut us down for a week

MountainStoveGuy said:
Its so dry and light, its gently falls to the ground. I guess the term around here is champane powder, i dont see the champane part, but the powder term fits well.
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All the people clamoring for snow around here wont be so happy when we get 2 feet of that white mud we usually get.
Even when they say it is light it is usually alot worse than what you get out there. Breaking shovels and shear pins on the sno-blowers.
 
I went to college just west of Denver, and lived in Wyoming for 2-1/2 years. Ive never understood either why they universally did such a poor job of maintaining town/city roads. Here in MA, at least in our town, they are out plowing during the storm, then plow and sand after the snow stops, until the roads are quite passable. Maybe out west, fewer population, more 4x4's allow people to get around better....I had a '73 Chevelle, and lemme tell ya, the roads of Golden, CO, were many times so rutted that i didnt bother to get the thing out, since it would only bottom out when it fell into the ruts. And it was not just during the storm, but days afterward. They didnt get more snow...in fact, quite a bit less.
 
Made it out today, im at work. Snow blower ran out of gas... i need to remember that old boy scout motto. Ended up with 40", not to bad. Its par for the course up where i live, but down here this place shuts down. I guess we will definatly have a white christmas. I got to get to work, im way behind.
 
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