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!!
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.
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. [:)]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.