Too Much Snow!!!!

[csmith9474]

I know it is off topic, but I have to vent somewhere while I am stuck at work. YIKES!!!! I am originally from the San Antonio, so I ain't used to stuff like this.

Of course if I wasn't stupid enough to come into work, I probably would have been stupid enough to try to railfan a little (get some of those cool shots of trains busting through drifts). The BNSF/UP joint line is just a little ways from the house, so I may try to get some shots once this lets up.

I definately wouldn't try to model this kind of scenery. That would be a lot of WS snow!!

[mononguy63]

It's more than a little unsettling to think that places one would normally consider to be pretty snow-savvy (like Buffalo, NY and Colorado Springs) have already been brought to their knees by winter weather this season, and it's not even winter yet! Makes you wonder what might be in store later for a tenderfoot area like here in the Midwest, where a 6" snow can shut down the city for a day or two.

Stay safe. Hope you stocked up on your survival gear (milk, bread, and Blue Box kits).

[csmith9474]

It's more than a little unsettling to think that places one would normally consider to be pretty snow-savvy (like Buffalo, NY and Colorado Springs) have already been brought to their knees by winter weather this season, and it's not even winter yet! Makes you wonder what might be in store later for a tenderfoot area like here in the Midwest, where a 6" snow can shut down the city for a day or two.

Stay safe. Hope you stocked up on your survival gear (milk, bread, and Blue Box kits).

Actually I stocked up with a partially built Tichy tank car (I gotta get that thing finished). Tomorrow it will be 47F and sunny, and by Saturday it is supposed to be in the mid 60s.

[pcarrell]

Just think of it as solid rain and it's not so bad.

[Texas Zepher]

I know it is off topic, but I have to vent somewhere while I am stuck at work. YIKES!!!! I am originally from the San Antonio, so I ain't used to stuff like this.

Snow? snow? this little bit of white stuff isn't snow.  It isn't really snow until it actually accumulates for more than an hour.  Friday night I did almost have to slow down coming over Monument pass because it was blowing so badly.  Other than the spring blizzard of 2005, we haven't really had any real snow in Colorado since 1993, Hence the drought.  All the trees in the mountains are getting eaten up by the pine beetles and dieing.  I want/we need MORE snow.  The last time I remember having snow on the ground (as it should be) all winter long was ummm 1985.   I keep hoping we will start having some real winters again to chase all these coastal and flat land people back where they came from. 

 

[Anonymous]

This is nothing, Wait till we get "The Big One" happens every few years, when we end up with 4 feet of snow. Most of this will be gone tomorrow. What I am worried is all the idiots who dont know how to drive when it gets Icey tonight.

Curt

[csmith9474]

We had about a foot when I left for work this morning, and whatever little bit we have had since then. One thing that I like about Colorado Springs is that, as mentioned above, the snow is normally gone withing a day or two.

[fiatfan]

I've been watching it snow through some web cams.  My daughter and her husband are in your area for eye surgery. 

Tom

[jeffrey-wimberly]

It's more than a little unsettling to think that places one would normally consider to be pretty snow-savvy (like Buffalo, NY and Colorado Springs) have already been brought to their knees by winter weather this season, and it's not even winter yet! Makes you wonder what might be in store later for a tenderfoot area like here in the Midwest, where a 6" snow can shut down the city for a day or two.

Stay safe. Hope you stocked up on your survival gear (milk, bread, and Blue Box kits).

Only take 1 to 2 inches here to shut everything down.

[SOU Fan]

This is nothing, Wait till we get "The Big One" happens every few years, when we end up with 4 feet of snow. Most of this will be gone tomorrow. What I am worried is all the idiots who dont know how to drive when it gets Icey tonight.

Curt

We have that much snow out here.  We live east of Parker and we barely got home.  Probably 4 feet of snow out here right now and it is still snowing.

 

-dekruif

[grayfox1119]

SMITTY: That's what they make Blue Boxes for, so that you can sit be a wood burning stove, with a pot of coffee on top filling the room with a great aroma of hot coffee, while you assemble a box car. Every now then you look at the windows from your nice warm room, at the snow and listen to wind howl, but it doesn 't bother you at all as you sip your coffee and enjoy your work in peace and quiet.
It just doesn't get any better than that, trust me !!!! Relax, enjoy the stress free day...you could be on the Interstate, stuck in traffic.

[csmith9474]

I've been watching it snow through some web cams.  My daughter and her husband are in your area for eye surgery. 

Tom

The roads are starting to get "decent". It got a touch above freezing, so that helped out a lot. As mentioned above, it will be a mess again once it gets well below freesing tonight.

[csmith9474]

SMITTY: That's what they make Blue Boxes for, so that you can sit be a wood burning stove, with a pot of coffee on top filling the room with a great aroma of hot coffee, while you assemble a box car. Every now then you look at the windows from your nice warm room, at the snow and listen to wind howl, but it doesn 't bother you at all as you sip your coffee and enjoy your work in peace and quiet. It just doesn't get any better than that, trust me !!!! Relax, enjoy the stress free day...you could be on the Interstate, stuck in traffic.

I am at work now, but after reading your post, I think I am about to go home and get to work on one of my kits!!

[tomikawaTT]

Back in the mid '80's, the California Highway Patrol closed Highway 58 over Tehachapi Pass for snow that didn't even reach the railheads on the Loop.  If that was the standard for road closure in the Buffalo - Niagara Falls area you could garage your car in mid - October and come back for it in May!

Chuck (native New Yorker)

[reklein]

I like it here in Lewiston ID. Mild winters and very litttle snow...........so far

[Texas Zepher]

We have that much snow out here.  We live east of Parker and we barely got home.  Probably 4 feet of snow out here right now and it is still snowing.

East of Parker! That puts you right on the fringe of the blizzard area.  From all the "Southern" and "NASCAR" stuff I had you figured as living in the real South somewhere.  Not in "Southern" Denver Yuppieville.  We'll have to figure out somehow and sometime to get together.  That goes for csmith and curt too.

P.S.  Now I am wondering why you didn't snarff up all those Southern locomotives sitting on the Caboose Hobbies clearance shelf the other day?  $32 for an Atlas Master H16-44.

[csmith9474]

We have that much snow out here.  We live east of Parker and we barely got home.  Probably 4 feet of snow out here right now and it is still snowing.

East of Parker! That puts you right on the fringe of the blizzard area.  From all the "Southern" and "NASCAR" stuff I had you figured as living in the real South somewhere.  Not in "Southern" Denver Yuppieville.  We'll have to figure out somehow and sometime to get together.  That goes for csmith and curt too.

Sounds good to me!! Today wouldn't work out too well, though.

[on30francisco]

Today it's sunny and almost 80 degrees in the San Francisco Bay area. I moved out here over 20 years ago because I was tired of those cold winters back in Cleveland.

[Vail and Southwestern RR]

Snow?

A little cool today, low 70s, but supposed to be around 80 over the weekend.

[Train Master]

i would not mind some snow. it would be only the 2nd or 3rd time in my life that i seen it

[SOU Fan]

We have that much snow out here.  We live east of Parker and we barely got home.  Probably 4 feet of snow out here right now and it is still snowing.

East of Parker! That puts you right on the fringe of the blizzard area.  From all the "Southern" and "NASCAR" stuff I had you figured as living in the real South somewhere.  Not in "Southern" Denver Yuppieville.  We'll have to figure out somehow and sometime to get together.  That goes for csmith and curt too.

P.S.  Now I am wondering why you didn't snarff up all those Southern locomotives sitting on the Caboose Hobbies clearance shelf the other day?  $32 for an Atlas Master H16-44.

Texas Zephyr,

Don't you go the club in the Union Pacific basement?? I've been trying to visit there.

I've met Curt.  He came to the club one saturday right after he joined the forum.

How was I supposed to know they has a sale???  I don't get downto caboose very often.  Are there any left???

 

-dekruif

[Anonymous]

wheres global warming when you need it?

GEARHEAD426

[Train Master]

i think it took a hike

[Anonymous]

wheres global warming when you need it?

GEARHEAD426

Uh Huh Sure... I am glad to see the moisture it has been so dry! I find it hard to believe that there is 4 feet in parker though. Mabye drifts up to 4 feet... Most of the snow here in lakewood has turned back to water and the main streets are wet side streets slushy, 3 inches left on the grass.... I really dont look forward to the black Ice in the AM though.

I dont mind getting togeather with any one just give me a place and time I will see if we can fit it in the scedual.

Curt

[Texas Zepher]

Don't you go the club in the Union Pacific basement?? I've been trying to visit there.

Yes.

How was I supposed to know they has a sale???  I don't get downto caboose very often.  Are there any left???

  You don't make the daily pilgrimage?  But don't feel bad.  I just realized you were N scale,  these were HO so nothing lost.

This Saturday is the Youth In Model Railroading Expo (attempt to make some funds so they can go to the national convention) in Westminster. First Presbeterian<sp?> church - near Mizzell's Hobby.  I'll be heading up that way with the kids.   As dekruif says, Friday night I'm almost always down in the basement of Union Station.  This week is open house so I am expecting to be busy with lots of public.  I'm thinking train video night some time after I get my MR layout contest entry done and after the Great American Train show....

[csmith9474]

Maybe we should all meet up at the clearance shelf at Caboose Hobbies.

[SOU Fan]

Don't you go the club in the Union Pacific basement?? I've been trying to visit there.

Yes.

How was I supposed to know they has a sale???  I don't get downto caboose very often.  Are there any left???

  You don't make the daily pilgrimage?  But don't feel bad.  I just realized you were N scale,  these were HO so nothing lost.

I dabble in HO scale.  Still might have bought one.  My goal for this/next year is to paint a modern day engine(8-40c4,c44-9w.ac4400cw) in Southern's Tuxedo

Here is a picture of the snow.

This is a picture of my sister's fountain.

Bet I had you fooled.

-dekruif

 

 

 

[grayfox1119]

I just watched the CBS eevning news and they said it was snowing in Colorado at the rate of 3" an hour......I live in New England, and I can tell you that 3" per hour is really rough. The plows cannot keep up with the snow at that rate, and if there is strong winds as well....you might as well go sit it out.

And, they just said that 4 fire fighters in California have died in that bad forest fire, and it was set. I hope they hang the person that set this fire.

[csmith9474]

We are just shy of 20" at the Air Force Academy (my wife is Air Force). It looks like we are done though. Thank goodness. That sure is a sight seeing all those trucks lined up waiting for I-25 north to open again.

[NeO6874]

Today it's sunny and almost 80 degrees in the San Francisco Bay area. I moved out here over 20 years ago because I was tired of those cold winters back in Cleveland.

Lucky you... I'm still stuck with them...

stupid Lake effect...