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!