The Colorado Blizzard

Well, east of the mountains we have been pounded all day and the
evening News said it won't quit for another 24 hours! The News also

jbhajos...

Wow, you guys really got hit hard. I hope you'll be safe and as
comfortable as possible.

My daughter and SIL planned to fly into Denver from here (north
Alabama) *this morning*. All packed and ready to go. To spend
Christmas week with her son's family who were to meet them at the
airport. My daughter (Melanie) visited us yesterday evening to give
us the bad news that the whole trip has been cancelled. While here,
her DIL called. They are equally devastated, mostly because of Emma,
their little 5-year-old, who adores her grandma and was so excited to
have her come to visit. Keri said she had been crying almost non-stop
since hearing grandma won't be there. She is heartbroken. So, in a
way, the Colorado storm impacts on folks far removed from Denver as
well.

Anyway, we hope all Coloradans will come through this A-OK.

CATherine...

All we can do is wait it out. But so many people in the city were
trying to go places and turned the main roads into parking lots with
the bad conditions.

Maybe your daughter and family can travel this weekend, when the
runways are finally cleared. Purrs for Emma.

said the governor had declared an emergency and called out the
National Guard with HumVees to rescue stranded motorists. All the
highways are closed. And it has been a whiteout all day, with gusts up
to 50 mph and temps around 20 with windchill below zero!

Pat...

I heard the same thing about Arizona and New Mexico - 150 miles of I-40 are
closed.

During the few times I could see out the one window that isn't crusted
with snow, we have huge drifts everywhere. I reckon we are snowed in
for a few days. Fortunately we have plenty of firewood. The stormdoor
on the enclosed porch isn't airtight, so the violent wind has blown
snow inside. but i keep a rubber-backed cuurtain over the door. so the
snow was crusting the inside as well as the outside of the door and
filling up the space between it and the curtain.

The dog really needed to go out; but wouldn't until she got desperate.
Then she came back in after a quick pee all covered in snow. Naturally
she shook herself all over me!

tension_on_the_wire...

Ah! So there *IS* such a thing as a
B@st@rd D*G Trick!

I suppose Kansas and Nebraska are getting rain from what i saw on the
radar. I just hope the storm loses some of its oomph and moisture
before it moves into other states.

polonca12000...

I hope things have improved by now.
Lots and lots of purrs and best wishes for everyone affected,
Polonca and Soncek

CATherine...

Ginger-lyn...

Wow, I'm so sorry you're caught in that mess! Hope you got plenty of
supplies at hand. Stay warm!

The weather has ben mild since the storm moved on. The snow is
shrinking and the cleanup is making headway. At my house, though, the
drifts are so big that Jeff on the tractor with a blade still hasn't
reached it. My driveway is 1/3 mile long and that is now drivable...if
I had a car! The trouble is, a new storm is coming in Thursday with
more snow. All that work to do over again. :-(

Pat...

What, you wanna keep all that snow for Colorado??? We've hardly seen any
snow here in MO for several years. I hope we get a deep one!