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Author Topic: Multiple Feet of Snow in Denver Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 03-19-2003 03:00 AM                  Joe, Joe, Joe.... It's not ALWAYS peachy-keen here... It does rain in torrents sometimes between December and March, and we have the earthquakes every now and then...but that performs a great service to weed-out the wimps. And, you know, by the time August rolls around, I really get sick and tired of all the nice weather...it makes me want to puke! I just like the fact if I want snow or to go snowboarding/skiing, I can take 2 hours and drive to the mountains for it. Then come back to the boring nice weather. Oh, well, such is life. >>> Phil Joe, I see you edited your post with a 1 AM pic...I took the below pic at 1:15 AM from my living room... I love it here!! >>> Phil [ 03-19-2003, 03:35 PM: Message edited by: Phil Hill ]  |  IP: Logged Rachel Craven Madam Moderator Posts: 2190 From: Pensacola, FL Registered: Dec 2000 posted 03-19-2003 03:04 AM                     I look out the window and see--NO SNOW! The first time all winter... Although I can't see much, its kinda dark.  |  IP: Logged Andrew Duggan Expert Film Handler Posts: 127 From: Albany, NY, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 03-19-2003 03:16 AM                        I know, seriously. After this godawful winter, it's really nice to finally click on a thread involving an absurd snowstorm and not be anywhere near it, or better yet, get to look out your window & see it firsthand. Walked around in shorts for the past 2 days...  |  IP: Logged Charles Everett Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: New Jersey Registered: May 2001 posted 03-19-2003 12:52 PM                     Awwwwww, Joe, don't feel sad! I grew up with snow in upstate New York. You get 6 inches, you dig out and life goes on -- just like the movie Snow Day. New Jersey got 2 feet of snow over Presidents Day. I got my driveway plowed out Monday night because I live on a state highway. Only trouble was, the snow got into my car's engine and gummed up the starter. My landlady's husband cleaned that up with no big harm. My car ran fine for 3 days -- until a nonstop rain that began Friday night and continued all day Saturday. That nonstop rain ruined the starter for good. I had to get the starter replaced for a $220 repair bill. Not only that, the rain flooded my basement apartment! The same thing happened to me in 1996 -- a weekend blizzard followed by flooding rain. Heavy snowpack is not intended to handle rain.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 03-19-2003 06:27 PM                     When I was a kid, I lived in Syracuse, NY for a couple years. We got dumped on pretty good by lake effect squalls and stuff. I've been in some nasty snowstorms over in Buffalo. But mountain snow in Colorado is an altogether different animal. I've seen fierce lake effect snow, but that never caused much concern. The way I've seen snow fall up in Colorado is really kind of scary. It just seems to dump down all at once --and in this case just keep dumping and dumping and dumping.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-19-2003 06:55 PM                     Sorry Phil, My view is better than your view...... But at least you're above the smog blanket!! Mark  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 03-19-2003 07:17 PM                  Actually the L.A. basin rarely has any smog.... that is more San Fernando Valley and other inland places. (Which are all lumped in with the basin for reporting many things) What I usually get is fog coming in from the ocean. Oh, about the view.... I'm VERY happy with mine and very grateful I am here. >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 03-19-2003 07:50 PM                     Joe, I see by the news you guys got hammered again. How's things going with you and the rest of the FT members in Colorado and Wyoming?  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 03-19-2003 10:53 PM                        The snow has stopped (at least it has the last time I was outside) and everything should be fine, but the biggest problem will be getting out of the neighborhood onto the regular streets. I live on a side street with about 30 inches of snow that hasn't been plowed. My driveway is all shoveled. But that doesn't do any good if I can't make it down the street!  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 03-19-2003 11:31 PM                        That'll teach you for not having a snowmobile.  |  IP: Logged Nicholas Roznovsky Expert Film Handler Posts: 156 From: College Station, TX, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 03-20-2003 12:07 AM                        Over here further west in Golden, I measured 58 inches in a field next to our house. We woke up this morning to discover that all of the carports in our townhome complex had buckled under the weight of the snow overnight. (Fortunately just the front edge, trapping but not damaging our cars.) I got to spend three hours from 4:30 until 7:30 this morning removing snow of the carports so they wouldn't collapse any further. Crews came out with bulldozers to remove all of the snow from the driveways, but our cars are still trapped underneath the carport roofs. I'm glad that it's finally stopped snowing. According to one of the news casts tonight, some areas in the foothills received 90 inches of snow! Since our "official" measurement is taken at the old airport, we'll end up with a lame ass sounding 29 inches as the official total for Denver, but almost everyone on the west side of town has nearly twice that much sitting in their yards.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 03-22-2003 06:13 PM                        Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse NY compete for the city with the most snowy winter. AFAIK, Syracuse has a slight lead so far with about 130 inches, with Buffalo trailing in last place.  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 03-22-2003 06:55 PM                        Mark, let us see a picture of your view!  |  IP: Logged System Notices Forum Watchdog / Soup Nazi Posts: 215 Registered: Apr 2004 posted 12-30-2006 12:09 AM                 It has been 1378 days since the last post.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 12-30-2006 12:09 AM                        quote: System Notices It has been 1378 days since the last post. Yeah yeah. Sue me. Well last week we got about 3 feet of snow or more. Not much has melted. And then yesterday and today we got a little over a foot on top of the old stuff. Last night it was really cool because I stepped outside at 3:00am or so and it was literally almost as bright as day. A picture taken last night at around 3:00am. No long exposure trickery. HERE is a larger, uncompressed anaglyph 3D version of that same picture. Cool.  |  IP: Logged

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