Snowicane....snowmageddon... (page 3)

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Here's photos of the big 2006 Colorado snowstorm... Keep in mind that these are the BIG ones - we're usually getting snow weekly, especially since Colorado has FINALLY gotten out of its TEN-YEAR-DROUGHT... We're starting to get NORMAL amounts of snowfall, again...

And another photo... Same snowstorm... That's hubby on the porch - and don't our Christmas lights look nice?!!? By the way, we didn't take the Christmas lights down until March 2007 - due to the next storm which I'll post pix of in a few posts...

Another photo of the 2006 storm...

Wheeeee!!! I LOVE snow!!! And our Christmas lights looked SO NEAT with this storm!!!

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And here's the big 2007 storm... By the way, we've had so many big storms in the last few years, I've stopped photographing them... As I mentioned above, Colorado has EMERGED FROM its TEN-YEAR-DROUGHT, which means we're finally GETTING SNOW AGAIN!!! Good for the forests; hopefully we won't have as many FOREST FIRES that cover Denver with smoke....

This is the backyard...

This is our back porch - so deep that our critters can't even get off of the porch!! Tom had to shovel our BACK porch so Sheeba could get out to go 'potty'...

This is after the porch has been shoveled - that's Sheeba (the dog..) and Velvet (the black cat...)

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Still more pix of the 2007 storm... We were joking that the snow in the front yard was forming a glacier and sliding towards the street...

(hubby likes to run around in shorts no matter what the temperature is...)

Ooops... Forgot to post this one with the above critter pix... Velvet, trying to figure out what happened to her back yard... There's that SIX-FOOT-FENCE again...

Our next-door-neighbor's car on the street... Our sidewalk's clear, at least... We have to shovel out our own streets here in Denver - no snowplows for the suburban residential streets...

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People in the neighborhood, digging themselves out again...

Here's a FOUR-WHEEL-DRIVE truck - needed to be dug out, too!!!

Here's another shot of Sheeba - in the back yard by the barbecue on the back porch... I think she found a snow-cave...

Anyway, I think you get the idea... Colorado doesn't have WORLD-FAMOUS skiing without having LOTS of SNOW!!!

Zid

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Also want to mention... Although the cold is dry, it gets BITTERLY cold here in Colorado! We usually get at least a COUPLE weeks - sometimes a month or so - of BELOW ZERO weather... We've gone hiking in blizzards that got down to -15 Farenheit... Our pipes have broken; we have to 'winter'proof the house every fall, and we each carry 'winter survival gear' in our cars - extra coats, sterno, food and water, just in case something happens. I've been stopped by blizzards while traveling; once when I was traveling across I-80 (Wyoming) in May - MAY, people!!!! - I was stopped just outside of Laramie, Wyoming by a blizzard that closed the interstate. I had to head south on I-25 (which is frequently closed by blizzards, too...) to I-70 - which, fortunately, the blizzard hadn't reached that far south - and travel west, then north to my destination in Utah...

We put steel-studded snow tires on our cars here from September/October until April/May/June... And they are useful... I remember scratching my way up a hill a few miles south of here in 2008 when we were hit by ANOTHER big blizzard/snowstorm - as I said earlier, I don't bother photographing them anymore - and I was SO GRATEFUL that I had steel-studded tires on. Many other cars were skidding to the side of the road and sliding back downhill - I was VERY LUCKY that I was able to scritch/slide around them...

The "Weather Channel" occasionally shows Colorado's roads in its segments on bad weather - that one where cars are sliding down a slick hill and crashing into the curbs and each other - happened in an area of town I'm very familiar with - and situations like that are HUGE hazards!!! We get idiots here who don't put ANYTHING on their tires - drive on "all-weather" tires, which are NO GOOD on ice or slick snow... Then you have to watch out for THEM sliding around on the roads... The WORST are the Californians who move out here - CLUELESS about driving on snow...

Rant, rant... I hate drivers who don't prepare for the bad weather, and then WE have to avoid them as the roads turn into skating rinks...

Zid

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WE ARE HAVING A SPRING SNOWSTORM!!!

It looks like "Dr. Zhivago" out there... "Some-where, my looove, there will be signs of spring... Some-where, my looove, we shall meet again...

It's been snowing for 3 hours and we've already gotten 7 inches! I-25 (that's the main interstate thru Denver) is closed at the southern end of the city - Highlands Ranch - and people are stranded on the Interstate from that area up to the Denver Tech Center - a distance of about 6 - 7 miles. The snowstorm is hammering the "Eastern Plains" - that's the area east of the Rockies and other mountain chains in the same system - from southern Wyoming to northern New Mexico...

I've shoveled out my driveway - twice - and have heaps of snow forming snow 'fences' on either side of it - helps keep the drifts on the OUTside of the driveway area...

This storm is carrying wet, WET snow - like shoveling chocolate-chip-cookie dough... Hmmm... Must be hungry after my workout...

We also call this kind of snow "heart-attack" snow... heavy and takes a LOT of effort to move it, tends to stick to the shovels and increases the weight of each shovel-full...

And the "winter storm warning" is in effect for around 24 hours - until tomorrow evening at 6:00. Guess we're going to get some more snow, tonight!!!

BuuuUUUT... On the bright side, maybe I can go snowshoeing from my front door! Or at least try out my home-made version of "YakTrax" - ones WITHOUT the silly rubber thingeys on the UNDERSIDE - where they get CUT all the time... Sheesh. Talk about POOR design!!!

Going to enjoy my snow... Going to enjoy my snow... (Hard to type while arms still strained from lifting that heavy stuff...)

Zid

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Oh... And we're featured on the "Weather Channel" again!!! Fifteen minutes of fame! - Again!

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Well, THIS spring "blizzard" was a bust...

Only about 10 - 12 inches in our area - far as I can tell...

Can't go snowshoeing in this.... Guess I'll try out my homemade version of "YakTrax" instead...

Zid

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BUMP!!!

'Cause it looks all CHRISTMASSY!!!!

Zid

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