For all of you not in Colorado we are getting a ton of snow AGAIN. We have snow pilled about head high on the sides of our driveway(I’m 6’2"). It’s insane, we have so much snow, on our sledding track we have a jump that is 4 feet high.
Anyone want to see pics, because I can get some if you wanna see some.
-dekruif
Well I guess I’ll just take my layout and move to Colorado! (I’m not kidding either) Here in west Michigan usually I’d be snowmobiling or snowboarding about now. But instead, I’m stuck here working on the railroad [:D]. I haven’t seen snow for about 3 weeks. We didn’t even have a white Christmas! I don’t know who to blame this on, but as soon as I can I’m moving north, or at least west of Lake Michigan.
We had a very light dusting of snow here in St.Paul MN today, but it’s melted. Brown Xmas again, they claim 28% of Twin Cities Xmas’s have no snow but it sure seems like we had very few when I was a kid in the sixties, and quite a few the last decade.
You’ll have to move quite a ways west then as we don’t have snow anywhere here in Wisconsin either 
I heard Denver got it big time again. Any word on the Southwestern part of the state, San Juan mountains near Durango? I spend the summers there and they need some good snowfalls to make up for last winter.
We stole it.[:-^]
Global warming? What Global warming?
Where’s Kyoto?
Seen any Polar bears Lately… they’re all hanging around town waiting for the sea to freeze so they can go to work…
And I thank you very much for keeping it in Colorado! [:D]
From someone that is not in any hurry to have to shovel.
Wow! I get to be a DOUBLE contrarian!
Here in the dessicated desert we actually have quite a bit of snow on the mountains, and some golfers at the high end of the valley got surprised when the precip they saw coming from the dark cloud overhead arrived in crystalline condition.
Of course, it didn’t survive contact with the fairway. Can’t have everything!
My second contrarian point is that every flake that falls on the Pacific side of the Colorado watershed will eventually end up in Lake Mead - which is in dire need of a significant transfusion.
Too bad we can’t just drain the clouds somewhere around Bryce Canyon and cut out the middle folks.
Chuck (with tongue firmly in cheek)
Pass it on!!! I love snow. The more snow, the better. Anyone that doesn’t like snow and cold is lost in the darkness. Then again I like HOT summers too!!! If you dont mind getting some pics I’d appreciate.
No problem I’ll probably get them tomorrow, as I just came in from sledding to warm up my gloves.
-dekruif
I don’t mind not having snow to shovel just now, and I agree Lake Mead needed a topping up last Nov when we passed by, but if I don’t get all four seasons in a year I’m really grouchy. We really need to see some snow before the start of racin’ season. J.R.
I enjoy a little bit of snow every now and again, BUT THIS IS NUTS!!! I am sittin’ just over 7000’ and we are really gettin’ hammered with the wind and snow. We have gotten almost two feet already. We did manage to get out for a little while today because tomorrow looks like a wash.
Oh well, it makes for some great toobin.
I don’t have any from today, but here are some pics of last week’s little “snow event”:
What is with Colorado?? Come on guys, the REST OF THE COUNTRY says ‘out in Denver they know how to handle snow’ yet TWICE now you guys are hiking your skirts up and calling out the National Guard???
Get with it, it is WINTER guys, and you live, like, ah, in the MOUNTAINS![soapbox][#wstupid][#dots]
P.S. Are the trains running?
Typically the snow that we get along the Front Range is gone within a couple of days, and normally there aren’t this many major storms so close to each other. It gets to the point where either you can’t leave the house, or it is too dangerous to even get on the roads.
I am not in Denver anyhow. I still had a good bit of snow on the ground from the last storm. It would be nice to have a break. A lot of businesses even shut down, and the snow removal crews have a hard time keeping up with storms like this, so it is a litle more than “hiking up skirts”.
And yes, the joint line is alive and running.
Hey, I didn’t call in the National Gaurd.[:P]
My trains aren’t really running right now but could be i I wanted them to be.
-dekruif
My goodness, snow in Colorado! Who’d a thunk?[:-^]
Ya know that we even get snow here in Alabama! Its called rain![:D]
We even have four seasons here too!
Early Summer
Mid Summer
Late Summer
Next Summer!
[wow][yeah][}:)]
the trains ARE running! www.railpictures.net has som incredible photos of BNSF trains running through the drifts
The BNSF/UP (or UP/BNSF depending on who you are) joint line is about a mile from my house, and there have been some huge drifts on the ROW, but nothing too big for the plows on the locomotives. It is really cool to see them bust throught the drifts at speed. You definately don’t want to be too close to the tracks 'cause the snow really goes flying (along with rocks or whatever else might be in there if it is at a crossing).