:dubious: They plow the main streets. The side streets are still a mess.
I’m in the mountains. The difference between being prepared and used to big snows and not is huge. We never shut down up here.
I predict you’re going to regret saying that within the next 24 hours.
Also, when the lynch-mob shows up at my house demanding that someone pay for all this snow, I’ll be sure to point them your direction for jinxing the metro-area in this manner. Fortunately for you, they’ll have an enormous amount of difficulty getting out to you and they’ll probably get their Civics stuck in ditches on the way out. They should be to exhausted to actually do you any harm by the time they finally reach you.
That’s good to know: you’ll rat me out, but I’ll be safe from harm. Unless someone tells Mouse_Spouse. . .
Pity my co-worker Rob the Aussie. This is the most snow he’s ever seen!
It’s started here in Boulder County. Still some uncertainty, but the best estimates are that it isn’t going to stop until Sunday. One computer model shows 18-36 inches west of I 25.
Happy days.
Flurries here in BFE Aurora. I’ll wrap things up here and head home (Broomfield).
Good luck everybody!
It’s sticking here in SE Denver.
Frontier is already cancelling flights.
At least all this is happening when it’s possible for the office to close. Were it January, I’d have to make it in, somehow.
Four inches so far of big fluffy flakes, on top of the remaining three foot drifts from last week, here, just east of I-25 in northern Colorado Springs.
Tabby
Yeah, so far it’s much worse to the south, it seems. We had an inch or so of sticking snow in the Tech Center when I left, but up here it’s still non-sticking wet messiness.
Man, those burnt offerings I made to the Minnesota Snow Gods must really be working! How was I to know that they were going to take all of our snow and dump it on Colorado?
BTW…do you know how hard it is to find a virgin white buffalo calf?
But seriously, folks…I feel your pain. Been there. Shoveled that.
Good luck.
I’ve shoveled twice already. Got about 4 inches so far, and the heavy stuff hasn’t started yet. I’m going to try and keep my driveway somewhat clear so I don’t have to do 2 feet all at once… again.
This storm is really weird. Tonight we get another 12-15 inches in what is just a preview of the feature attraction, which arrives tomorrow night. That one looks like an exact duplicate of last week’s adventure, complete with 20 more inches of snow and high winds, producing blizzard conditions.
Potentially 5 feet of snow in a week.
Wake me up in 2007.
16” new snow on Hoosier Pass. Still snowing lightly. 141” so far this year at our house. My Wife has been measuring. Our snowy months are still to come :D.
Summit County (Breckenridge, Frisco, Keystone, Copper Mountain) only have about 6” or so of new snow (the roads, not the ski areas. The ski mountains always get more). We have our standard Christmas tourist influx that are making the roads a bit of a mess. And, it seems that the supply trucks from Denver aren’t doing much supplying. If they even have anything to bring.
I feel for you folks on the front range And all the folks traveling.
(I was down in Denver over Christmas weekend).
A co-worker went down to DIA on Thursday the 21st to fly home to family. Didn’t get out until the 26th. He is supposed to fly back on Saturday the 30th. Just when the next part of this storm may be hitting.
If your flying into DIA anytime soon. Bring a book.
You HAD to say it, didn’t you?
Sorry.
I just measured: 10" out here so far.
“If your flying into DIA anytime soon. Bring a book.”
Yeah, War and Peace" 
Well, at 3:00 AM the snow has stopped for now. There’s only about 3 inches on the sidewalk here on the Aurora edge of Denver. And looking around at the city cams:
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/livecams/index.html
Most of the city looks damn good so far. So unless the Friday-Saturday portion of this storm really gets kickin’ or the winds pick up, I’m rating this a yawn so far.
Management is plowing my parking lot even as I type. They must have decided, “You want plowing? We’ll give you 4 am plowing!” Personally, I’m fine with it; I’ve been up for an hour.
Yeah, wolfman looks like we got the short end of the predictions this time. So far.
I saw the OP on Wednesday afternoon – my wife and I were in Raleigh, NC, visiting our son and his wife for Christmas. Our travel travails are recounted here. My heart sank – we’d already moved our return flights from Wednesday to Thursday to make up for the day lost getting out of Denver, now we were thinking we should have left things as they were. Razorette got on the phone one more time, got our flights moved to earlier Thursday. We landed in Denver just as the snow was starting to fall Thursday afternoon, then drove out of the snow on I-76 at about Hudson. We got a few flurries here in Sterling Thursday night, but nothing to speak of.
We were listening to KUNC, the NPR station for northern Colorado, on the drive home Thursday, and it sounded like some Denverites were blaming the mayor and other officials for being “unprepared” for the first storm. I guess I don’t understand that – just because we live in a place where snowfalls of two and three feet aren’t unheard of doesn’t mean we have to be prepared to overcome such a storm every time it happens. We get these storms once every five to ten years, on average, and it always takes days or even weeks to dig out of them. There is simply no amount of snow removal equipment that’s going to keep DIA and Denver’s streets open when a blizzard hits. This isn’t Chicago or Buffalo or Minneapolis – it’s wide open Denver, and when the wind blows and the snow flies, natives know we have no choice but to hunker down, wait it out and then start digging.
You’re damn right I think it’s the responsibility of the local government to keep the roads plowed. I know that we’re westerners, but we also live in a major metropolitan city where I think we an expect a bit more in snow removal than just waiting for it to hit 60 in the next five days. Even in minor snow storms the snow removal was atrocious earlier this year but I feel they’re finally figuring it out. It’s as if the cities need practice in snow removal and need to be retrained every year. I don’t think that just waiting for things to clear off in their own time is an acceptable strategy, it impinges on the safety and economic output of everyone. How in the hell are cities supposed to attract corporate employers like Boeing when their attitude is, “meh, get some canned food and welcome to the American West, your employees won’t be showing up to work for the next six days.”
Anyway, I think we saw last night what can be accomplished with a crack snow removal team; the city is by and large very drivable right now. What’s the relative cost of employing another 40 guys in snow plows on a part time basis versus the economic hit the city takes from not being in the office for a week?