It was a be stuck in the house all day here… damn fickle weather… and then I was told that only 10 miles south they had no snow?
Ok, the windows looked like this most of the day.
Peaked out the front door and saw this… and the wind was whipping at about 30mph… but appears the road was melting off? all that warm weather had the ground warmed up from the past few days.
Glad he had the swing set frame painted bright orange… shows up.. so it snowed maybe 6 or 8 inches around here but the drifts were plenty big… early in the day I couldn’t see the second house.
But I hear it was worse north of here… I-25 north was a parking lot… suspect that I-70 may be getting some of the same.
All this reminded me of another storm back in 1977. I had a meeting in Denver (worked for the Govt back then) and it was snowing huge flakes by noon so we called the meeting at noon, I grabbed my stuff and hit the road in a short wheel base govt pickup… it was not easy but was moving ok… better than a lot and as I come off Monument hill they were shutting down traffic. I got through the Springs and it was clear on the south side… turned east at Pueblo and got into the wind and then by Fowler the dirt was bad enough to block out sections of the highway so you couldn’t see but I did get home (LaJunta)… that night the wind picked up it howled loud and we had dust coming in around all the doors and windows. We used wet towels to block up some of the big leaks. We only got a little snow but a lot of dirt and about 24 to 30 hours solid of really strong wind… some said it was over 60 to 70 mph winds for most of that time… it did damage to the local pizza hut roof and a few other building around… North some 40 miles we heard about snow drifts as tall as the eves on some houses… That was the month before Amy was born. What fun that was. Now she is in Denver and enjoying some of the same blizzard conditions…
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