Pictures from the Denver Snow Storm

[Bayoublaster]

Here's some pictures I took a liitle while ago during the storm we're having in Denver. Part of it is I was using a low-res PDA camera but most of it is the storm itself.

 

[Ken C.]

Better you than me!

Stay safe out there.

 

[wayne37]

That is what it's supposed to look like here, but it's mild and no snow ( I mean none ) here in northern Ontario.

 

[B Finnigan]

Nothing like a foot or two of snow to screw up darn near everything. Enjoy it for what it's worth!

 

[Bob W]

Raton is a mess too, and has been since this morning. Not too cold during the day, but windy as hell and about two feet of snow. Now that it's dark, the temps are quickly dropping. Anyone stuck outside tonight is screwed, and the Red Cross has set up a shelter at the convention center. All of the highways out of town are closed.

In-between here and Denver, it appears that C-Springs only has 6 inches of snow, and Pueblo has none.

I was supposed to pick up my convertible from the body shop in C-Springs today...

-Bob

I25 is closed from Las Vegas, New Mexico to Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Current temp is 23d (11d wind chill), and winds at 25mph. Low tonight, 14d with 40mph wind gusts.

 

[StarStorm]

Im in northeast colorado, just about in the middle of it. Its pretty hardcore here, snowing nonstop...only about 8 inches so far though.

SS

 

[fulloflead]

That's nothin'. Those photos look pretty mild. You had to be here.

I drove home from where I work at I-25 & Park Avenue today at 2:30.
I live off of Colorado Blvd - about 20 exits south of there.

I drove past the Colorado Blvd. Exit.
The only reason I KNEW I was driving by the Colorado Blvd. Exit is that I could see that blue neon line around the top of one of those Cigna Health buildings near that intersection. Everything else was WHITE!

It was funny; you could drive DOWN the Interstate but you couldn't get OFF the interstate because the Exits weren't being serviced and you had to practically trailblaze to get off at an exit.

I couldn't figure out why so many people were getting stuck in the same place by the side of the Interstate every once in a while, until I realized that they were all people who were trying to get off at exits and getting stuck.

I had to get off at a flatter exit "ramp" and drive on backstreets to get home. That was something too. Many cars just plain got stuck in the middle of the street. It was one of those where you had to keep rolling because if you stopped...

My 4WD Explorer Sport did pretty good but that was the limit of what it would do. By the time I parked in front of my apartment, the only things left rolling were 4WDs.

Oh, I stopped at the liquor store. We're ready.:thumbup:

[Maybe I'll post pictures of my apartment complex parking lot in the morning. Those are always fun.]


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[Esav Benyamin]

Post a picture of the liquor bottles after a couple days of this.

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Be careful out there, all of you. Getting stuck in a blizzard can be deadly. I've spent enough time in snow country to have developed a serious repect for its hazards. Carry a space blanket and some kind of rations and water, at least.

 

[Bayoublaster]

This is why I like Louisiana. We see our natural disasters coming from the mid-Atlantic.

I'm sure glad I've got four wheel drive up here though.

 

[fulloflead]

Post a picture of the liquor bottles after a couple days of this.

LOL. I'm going to go visit relatives on Sunday, so it's not going to happen.

Be careful out there, all of you. Getting stuck in a blizzard can be deadly. I've spent enough time in snow country to have developed a serious repect for its hazards. Carry a space blanket and some kind of rations and water, at least.

You're not kidding! I always keep a kit in the back of my SUV. And when I say a kit I mean a KIT! You can fit a lot of stuff in the back of your SUV and seat-back pockets and compartments, etc and still have more than enough room for your life. I've got blankets, those little square "fuel" tablets, fire starters of all sorts, water, food, shovel, axe, fixed-blade, a big home-made first aid kit, flares... name it.

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[fulloflead]

Oh, and now that you mention it, even I (as prepared as I am) benefit from the reminder, occasionally, of JUST HOW POWERFUL mother nature can be.

I scraped the ice off my SUV windows in a BLIZZARD today, wearing khaki pants, undershirt, dress shirt, and leather jacket, gloves but no hat and that's it. When I got in my Explorer I was COLD and literally had ICE caked in my hair.

I thought, "D@mn, that could kill a person really quick."

It's amazing how fast weather can take you from where you're still warm from the car or inside to a place where your motor skills aren't working very well and you're not thinking straight and can't even build a fire if you had wood and kindling in front of you.

It happened to me when I was 18. Luckily, a car came a picked me up. I would have died. In a way, I'm glad that happened to me. Now, I'm always prepared. AND, I'd make decisions, like building a fire or seeking shelter, sooner. Much sooner. Knowing what I know now.:

Thanks, E.B., I'm glad you brought that up.:thumbup:

 

[Esav Benyamin]

The first winter I spent by Boston was COLD. I got back to my dorm one afternoon, cracked the ice out of my beard and mustache, and took off my cap -- and took off the cap of ice that formed on top of my cap.

The cold is insidious. By the time you need to realize you're in trouble, you don't realize it, because your mind is numb. I'm sure that's what happened to those three climbers. (They just called off the search for the last two.)

 

[Bayoublaster]

This monster storm just HAD to happen on one of the 3 times this year I was going to fly.

 

[Bob W]

In addition to a blanket and extra clothes, I don't leave home this time of the year without topping off both gas tanks.

There's a book about winter in Colorado, Children of the Snow. It's a true story about a schoolbus full of children being stuck in a snowstorm overnight, and several of them died. Haven't read it myself. Anyone?

-Bob

 

[fulloflead]

In addition to a blanket and extra clothes, I don't leave home this time of the year without topping off both gas tanks.

Yeah, the gas is something I'm really BAD about! I HATE getting gas. Don't know what it is about me. I always let the light come on before I refill. That could kill me someday.

There's a book about winter in Colorado, Children of the Snow. It's a true story about a schoolbus full of children being stuck in a snowstorm overnight, and several of them died. Haven't read it myself. Anyone?

-Bob

Sounds like something I'd like. Thanks for the recommendation.:thumbup:
However, I just looked it up on Amazon and can't find it.
Aid a hand?

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[Daniel Moore]

The best snowstorm that I've ever experience was April 1st in 1998 I believe. I remember it just like yesterday! That was awesome- I had a really nice snow fort going. I could go for a really big snowstorm right about now...

 

[Bob W]

Yeah, the gas is something I'm really BAD about! I HATE getting gas. Don't know what it is about me. I always let the light come on before I refill. That could kill me someday.

Driving around Denver it's probably not as much of an issue. Put the car in the ditch on the way to work, and simply walk to the nearest gas station and call a tow truck.

Where I work, there are no gas stations within an hour drive (that's an hour in good conditions). The odds of anyone finding me or seeing my truck are often minimal. And I'm sometimes the first person to drive the gasfield roads (ie bulldozed paths) after/during a snowstorm, being that I don't come and go at regular shift changes.

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Children of the Storm, my mistake

There's apparantly about 8 books with the same, or very similar titles. Here's the one:
http://www.amazon.com/Children-Stor...f=sr_1_10/102-2289679-3591304?ie=UTF8&s=books

-Bob

 

[Emanuel]

I'm getting cold just looking at those photos.

brrrrrr...

 

[m1marty]

That's nothin'. Those photos look pretty mild. You had to be here.

Hey bud.....you remember the storm in '97? Chev 1/2 ton w/ 6 inches of lift, 35 inch BFG Mud Terrains and lockers in both pumpkins couldn't get me around much at all. 4ft plus on the road at my house with drifts going well over 8ft. Ft. Carson sent out tracks as the snowplows where getting stuck. I ended up cruising most of the north side of the Springs.........on my snowmobile. IIRC, we had a "no leaving your house" curfew, as quite a few people died during that storm from getting stuck outside.

 

[fulloflead]

Where I work, there are no gas stations within an hour drive (that's an hour in good conditions). The odds of anyone finding me or seeing my truck are often minimal. And I'm sometimes the first person to drive the gasfield roads (ie bulldozed paths) after/during a snowstorm, being that I don't come and go at regular shift changes.

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Children of the Storm, my mistake

There's apparantly about 8 books with the same, or very similar titles. Here's the one:
http://www.amazon.com/Children-Stor...f=sr_1_10/102-2289679-3591304?ie=UTF8&s=books

-Bob

Yeah, I know. Raton.
We've talked about it before, years ago.
We're old buds. Sometimes we forget we know each other until we get on the same subjects again!

I'll look up that book soon. Probably order it once I get 2 or 3 items in my cart or "wish list".

Hey bud.....you remember the storm in '97? Chev 1/2 ton w/ 6 inches of lift, 35 inch BFG Mud Terrains and lockers in both pumpkins couldn't get me around much at all. 4ft plus on the road at my house with drifts going well over 8ft. Ft. Carson sent out tracks as the snowplows where getting stuck. I ended up cruising most of the north side of the Springs.........on my snowmobile. IIRC, we had a "no leaving your house" curfew, as quite a few people died during that storm from getting stuck outside.

I think I remember. Somehow, I think we made it to Monarch to go snowboarding. If I remember right, I was pushing snow with my bumper until we got on the highway.

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