Another blizzard headed our way in Denver

[Buddyblazon]

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_4904905

Thursday's risk: 3 inches to 2 feet.

They still haven't been able to clear the side streets from the one last week. And they really can't...now that the snow was packed down to 4-8 inches of ice. We still have cars getting stuck here.

Somebody who knows weather...is this "global warming" related? I've been here most my life...and my Mother is 4th generation Coloradan. She can recall blizzards like this last one (usually many years in between though...the last one was in '03...before that '82)...but never can she remember two within a weeks time.

Granted it hasn't hit yet...and we may be spared. Here's to hoping. This last one was the worst I can remember.


Oh...and they just found two bodies in the melting snow.
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_4905303

[rockymountaindem]

1. The one last week wasn't as bad as the Old '97

October 1997 was the worst blizzard in Colorado Springs history, IIRC. We got four days off of school for that one! But two within a week, well, that just sucks.

[niyad]

16. There was a halloween blizzard here in '72 or '73 that was, believe it or not, even worse.

[Blue_In_AK]

18. That's the one I was referring to in my post below...

My daughter was trapped in a hotel there for days.

[MindPilot]

2. It's raining in San Diego, so your blizzard is on the way...

I lived in Denver from '67 to '80. I recall exactly one really bad snow in that time. It was I believe in September '69, about 18" of really wet stuff that tore down a lot of trees.

[madokie]

6. check this out, when I was in boot camp at nimitz in the winter of '67 it snowed in san diego

it didn't stick mind you but it was a pretty snowfall

[MindPilot]

7. That snow is a piece of local folklore...

I was in boot at Great Lakes in the winter of '72. No surprise that it snowed, but being from Denver, I was very entertained watching guys from the south volunteer for "snow watch" and be astonished when they were handed a shovel.

[madokie]

8. It was so unreal because here in neOk it snows every winter pretty much

and here I was in sunny SD and it snows, the local weatherman said at the time it was the first snowfall in SD in 34 years. whats amazing is I remember all this.

[MindPilot]

13. Sunny San Diego? I'd never been so cold in my short life.

It was a nice February day in Denver when I joined; I was fully prepared for sunny San Diego since that's where everyone went to boot if they signed up at the Denver center so I was wearing jeans, tee-shirt and a light jacket. I literally hadn't lowered my right hand after swearing in when some old craggy chief came up and pointed, "you, you, annnnd you...Great Lakes."

A few hours later I'm standing in knee-deep snow, well below zero howling wind and get screamed at for shivering. The jacket had been confiscated earlier for some minor infraction and it was at least three days before they got around to issuing uniforms, but of course we got haircuts before breakfast. Priorities.

[SoCalDem]

20. I got snowed on TODAY in Banning, CA... it was accompanied by

lightning and thunder..what a hoot :)

[KarenS]

3. Boulder here,,,,

Our mail delivery hasn't even caught up yet,,,,

I hope we are spared and it falls somewhere that needs it,,,,


that being said, I'm off to the grocery store for our dwindling supplies.

[Warpy]

4. They're blowing sunshine our way here in NM

and telling us this one will behave itself and confine the snow to the mountains, where it belongs.

We'll see. That last storm looked disturbingly like last summer's pattern of rain coming up the length of the state right through the valley.

[hlthe2b]

5. You forget the Halloween blizzard of 1997

(I won't, for sure, having spent three days stuck at DIA enroute to New Orleans)...

Who knows what will happen. I cringe when I see all the overweight older men out shoveling this stuff, though. I feel like I need to carry around a portable external defibrillator, a cell phone and an AMBU bag wherever I go...

[Cassandra]

9. Thanks for the info.

I'm sending a box of winter clothes that are a bit too big for me to my friend in Denver. I hope she gets them (and they fit) before the spring thaw.

[sarcasmo]

10. We have no snow and forty degree temps in Western Michigan.

I would say it all has to do with global warming. They are forecasting two fifty degree days next week.

[Samurai_Writer]

11. oh yay! More missed work

Man, this is almost as bad as when we had two hurricanes in a three week period when I lived in Florida.

I already told my boss (who is not local, she works in the Wichita office) that I most likely won't make it in on Friday. I barely made it home Monday night after spending Christmas at my sister's in Denver. We had a huge wind storm up in Gold Hill, and 3 foot snow drifts all over the road. We didn't get plowed out until yesterday afternoon.

I'm off to the grocery store after work today, too. I just hope I can get to my NYE party in Longmont on Sunday...

[hashibabba]

12. Maybe global warming, too, but last night on the weather channel

they said its because of El Nino and you'll keep getting this weather all winter. Good luck!

[Kceres]

14. Making room in Lafayette, Colorado...

Hubby is out shoveling the old stuff to "make room for the new" stuff. I kind of thought that was funny. Like if we didn't make room for it it won't fit or something? He didn't see the humor. Oh well. He's the one that has to (likes to) shovel. I'd better go grocery shopping AGAIN!

[newyawker99]

22. Hi Kceres!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[niyad]

15. hearing from friends who pay more attention than I do that there are several computer models that

conflict--so they really don't know what to expect. I have watched the weather channel today--and the forecast has changed at least 6 times.

my thoughts are with all of you-- from my little protected enclave, where we got very little snow (the roads were clear the next day!!)

[Blue_In_AK]

17. I lived in Colorado Springs in the '50s and early '60s

We had blizzards often, sometimes as early as September, and sometimes as late as May. My daughter was caught in a blizzard down there in the '90s. I think blizzards are a fact of life in that part of the country.

[G Hawes]

19. Sometimes the weather is

just the weather.

[leftofthedial]

21. I've lived here since 1978

biggest snow was 1982--shut everything down for three days.

worst storm (ice, broken branches, power outages, damage, etc.) was 1994 (?). As I recall, they predicted a follow-up big storm a few days later, but it never materialized.

this last one was pretty big too. SIde streets are still a mess all over. People want to blame the mayors, but it's not really their fault. You'd have to invest in a massive fleet of plows that you only use once or twice a decade to do much better. Major streets were passable the next day and clear the second day, which I think is pretty amazing.

[seabeyond]

23. i am right below in amarillo. we didnt get a winter the last two years

it appears we are getting it this year. yea. that is what i have found that happens.