Colorado guys....

bullsi1911

Sounds like y’all are going to get hammered in the next couple of days.  Stay safe and warm!

sakodude

Should be fun, local predictions of around 2 feet of snow and it's a work weekend for me. makes me glad I'm only 4 miles from work.

CHIRO1989

Go stand in line and buy beer, milk, bread, and eggs!

earlyagain

I put a folded up box in my back pack.

So I can build an igloo in case of emergency.

  

Linefinder

Keeping an eye on it. Colorado Springs is in the "maybe" zone. We might get 5", we might get 2 feet.  We got 22" on Jan 30, 2016. Naturally, that was the day we were moving. Got the last truckload load into the
house, and 15 minutes later....whiteout.

This time we're borderline, but it sounds like Denver and environs are gonna get hammered. 

Stay safe, guys. Sako....drive defensively.....there be idiots out there. Of course, you already know that.

Mike

earlyagain

A lot folks here in the Denver metro aren't waiting for the storm. They're having their collisions today. Not sure why the couldn't wait a day or two. People are just impatient, I guess.......

sakodude

Everyone is in panic mode, gas stations and grocery stores are mobbed. You'd think they never saw snow before.

Linefinder

Funny thing about the weather here. Due to high mountain peaks and deep valleys changing the elevation by a couple thousand feet within a mile as the crow flies, "point-specific" forecasts are a fools errand. Denver, the "Mile High City" actually isn't that close to the mountains. You can see them in the distance, but they don't protect the city, with them being so far away. Denver and the Eastern Plains of Colorado get hammered.

Colorado Springs is protected in the west by Pike's Peak, even though  1K feet higher than Denver. We get "some" weather here, but not much by Denver standards.

Mike

earlyagain

Finished shoveling. Second time today. Took almost twice as long as thismorning. Guess Im tired.

My philosophical musing for all this is.....
Shoveling snow is like life. Just keep picking away at it till' it's time to get put in the ground. Hey!

mosseybuck

We only got about 4" in the San Luis Valley, much less than the predicted 18". And last week we thought spring was here!

NN

Every one stay safe

sakodude

We got pretty close to 2 feet of wet, heavy concrete snow up north here. They apparently don't budget for snow plows around here, I had to chain up just to get out of my development..

earlyagain

It ain't car commercial snow, that's for sure. 

Funny thing, Im sore like I just fought the school bully from shoveling snow. What the funny part is, it looks like the young girl down the street came out thismorning in her PJ's and shoveled more snow in two hours than I did in two days

JerryBobCo

I remember my first "spring" in the Salt Lake Valley.  I quickly learned that springtime in the Rockies wasn't all it was cracked up to be.  I shoveled 8 inches of snow on Mother's Day.

Linefinder

We got ~11" at my house. 3 miles south of me they barely got 5". 3 miles north of me they got 16". Colorado Springs has some "micro climates" that are full-auto crazy.

Mike

Linefinder

mosseybuck said:

We only got about 4" in the San Luis Valley, much less than the predicted 18". And last week we thought spring was here!

Glad it went well for you, Paul. I was sure thinking about you over the weekend.

Mike

CHIRO1989

sakodude said:

We got pretty close to 2 feet of wet, heavy concrete snow up north here. They apparently don't budget for snow plows around here, I had to chain up just to get out of my development..

First time I ever used tire chains was with MHS and JBOhio in Colorado

Linefinder

First time I used tire chains, I beat the crap put of my truck fenders.

Mike

jbp-ohio

Linefinder said:

First time I used tire chains, I beat the crap put of my truck fenders.

Mike

Yep. You need a metric poop ton of bungee cords with chains.

CHIRO1989

Linefinder said:

First time I used tire chains, I beat the crap put of my truck fenders.

Mike

JBOhios FIL lives around Montrose, he made sure I chained up correctly