Holy ****ing shit ...

Reason <a href="http://www.stadiumguide.com/invesco.htm">#76,101</a> why I'm glad I don't live in Colorado.

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It's eerie. It's like a ghost town out there.

The drifting makes it look worse than it is, but snowfall totals are between 21-24" so far, with another 6" inches or so to come.

FTR thats not a drift on the back door....shave off the top to make it level and that is how deep it is on the balcony

Storms like that can be fun so long as you have some good food, alcohol, movies, decent company and don't have to work the next day. Looks like the work part is a given, hope you're all doing ok with the rest.

My boss just called and said the office is closed...whoohoo! I have all of the above, so I'm just stayin' in.

I just saw Leno started his monologue with the Denver snowstorm...

Watch out for looters .. Fur coats will be first on the list ....

Sleeping with the enemy is never a good thing.

Last time I visited Colorado Springs with the fam in March 2003, they had 30 inches of snowfall in 24 hrs. It was awesome for us Arkansas folk....best spring break ever!

I hear about Denver's snowfall and still have to laugh. I'm sure its a lot and all, but the majority of the snowfall never hits Denver and stays in the mountains, and after looking at pictures of my dad growing up in Buffalo when they had snow over 6 ft high- I just don't give 2 chits.

Its pretty nuts to see houses that are barely noticable other than about 2 feet before the roof starts.

Thats my opinion of it as well, declaring a disaster emergency just shows how uppty denver people are... Hurricane and destructive tornado's are disasters.. five feet of is not....

I wish KC would get snow like this agian instead of the 2-3" is thick ice in a storm we get instead...

I remember when Mayor Pena announced they would not try to plow snow. Instead he proposed that the city sanitation (garbage) trucks would drive around and pack it down....Honest, he actually said that.

I hear he may be on the Chiefs Staff next year working with Herm on Offense.

It wasn't the snow as much as the blowing snow. Visibility was zero. And, I mean ZERO. And it wasn't just Denver; this was statewide.

How about some new pictures ?

That depends. This storm was what they call an 'upslope flow' storm. The moisture actually comes along and up the Front Range. As the air is forced higher in altitude, it literally squeezes the moisture out before it gets to the mountains, and dumps the snow along the Front Range. They are relatively rare, and most storms hit the mountains harder, but they do happen.

I haven't taken any yet. It's still snowing where I live, but the wind has died down. I'll take some pictures after I shovel again.

I'd guess we've had about three feet here so far. Drifts are easily 5 to 6 feet.

What a wonderful welcome to Denver you are getting DaFace, eak!

Tell me about it. I just hope we get into our apartment today. We were supposed to move in yesterday, and it's not looking like we'll get down there till at least late today. :(

This really is a rare event.

It's really going to suck when you have to start moving the furniture in.
Back around 1995, there were about 5 days in a row that the temperature never got any higher than 8 degrees below zero. I'm pretty sure that was the coldest 5 day stretch of the decade.
I was moving into a new house during that time. It was the most miserable move I ever made.

Yeah, it always seemed like the huge front range storms didn't dump a bunch of snow in the mountains. The huge mountain storms wouldn't hit the FR that hard, either. This one, though, seems to be nailing both. The Front Range seems to be getting the worst of it, though. I was there for the Spring 2003 storm. I need to pull those pics off my old laptop to upload. My wife and I used snowshoes to get around town for 3 days.

Yes, the 2003 storm was bad. The snow in that storm (March?) was very heavy. Thankfully, this snow is basically powder.

Yeah, I understand that. As much as this sucks, I'm not holding it against the city or anything. If I were already moved in, I'd probably be glad for an excuse to stay home and relax!

Wow. DIA is going to stay closed until at least noon Friday.

Daaaaamnnnnn

When you have to shovel your porch, driveway, and walkway half a dozen times and still get absolutely nowhere, you'll rethink your wish.

It's one thing to shovel once, but it's another thing to have to go outside and shovel every couple of hours just to keep up with the storm. Otherwise, if you don't, then you have to shovel two feet of snow at once and that's no easy task.

It took me and my future FIL around two hours to shovel their driveway and sidewalk this morning. I'm not entirely sure what we accomplished, though, since the streets are still buried under 2.5' of snow.

Heh. Just wait until you get your driveway totally cleared and the plows come by and erect a wall of hard packed icy snow between your cleared driveway and the street. Good times!

The deepest snow photos look like Truckee, CA for most of the winter. Or better yet, Serene Lakes, CA...it is freaky how much snow they get and they get no pub about it.

Please, Please, Please!!! Who ever has to get out in this stuff please be careful and read this

How to Drive a car in winter weather

Golden > Denver

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I wonder if Rainman still has to shovel his roof. He used to bitch about it.

Just look for the guy laying on the sidewalk next to the frozen chunk of chicken soup.

I'm not used to all this strange and foreign language that you all are speaking. "Shoveling snow?" "Big Drifts?" "Roads closed due to weather?" Huh? :)

Yep. There's no point in shoveling your sidewalk until the plows come through.

I bet you'll be wishing for snow rather than running from falling bricks from buildings during earthquakes :)

Red Tide Warning

Still not in our apartment till at least tomorrow morning. This blows.

Did you notice that a few hours after the snow stopped that the sky was totally clear? That's the secret about Colorado: it's almost always a clear sky and above freezing the next day. You'll actually see sublimation on the roads tomorrow!

So did your...'er...ah....y'er you know what freeze off since you longer have "er" at the end of your screen name but a "less?" :p

No. A mod performed a penectomy. I don't believe being cold had anything to do with it.

Don't worry, help is on the way. Another storm is in Cal right now, and should make Montana in a couple of days.

Well, I just got back from driving around town some. The things I noticed during my short trip. (And thank gawd I have a 4-wheel drive vehicle):

1. Lots of people walking around.

2. The grocery store parking lot was outnumbered with 4-wheel drive vehicles to standard vehicles 20-1.

3. There are quite a few people who had to abandon their cars and plows are coming by and making it worse for them.

4. The grocery store was gravely short on the following items: frozen pizzas, potato chips, eggs, and bread.

5. More cars were parked in front of the liquor store than were in front of the grocery store.

6. It's unimaginable how beautiful and arresting everything is when it's covered in so much snow and the sun has finally greeted us with some light.

Ah! I see...an internet eunuch! :) j/k

And milk.

Did the grocery stores have a run on old people looking to stockpile?

I woke up sick this morning, so I'd've been lying in bed even if it had been a gorgeous day. I did drag myself out a little bit to help the wife do some shoveling, though. Here are a few pictures from central Denver.

This is our front walkway.

These are our front steps going up from the sidewalk. It's a pretty steep little hill, so they got some drifting.

I guess I'm glad I didn't start today, RM.

Here's the back yard.

Ha! I just noticed the Rain Man/Da Face alliance avatar.

You would've had a pretty slow first day...

Damn. I had a pretty slow day today anyway, but I could've been getting paid for it! :banghead:

We got some sort of very large "snowsicle" hanging off of our porch. I kid you not, this thing was something like 5 feet deep and 2 1/2 feet wide, and hung down a couple of feet.

Prepared Coloradans took to the streets in skis.

We ended up with about 23 inches in our yard, which is well short of the record of 32 inches back in 2003. I can't tell if anything is still coming down, so I doubt we'll get much more, if any.

My snowcicle was way bigger than Rainmans...

The tree swings just about disappeared in these drifts...

Last one... the plastic pirate ship's roof does a nice job of showing how much we got out here.

God has spoken. He is very angry at the people living in dog killing country.

:p

Did you all go sledding and do other fun snow activities?