Too Much Snow!!!!

[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

[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.

[fiatfan]

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

Tom

[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.

[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

[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. 

 

[pcarrell]

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

[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.

[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]

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!!