Wednesday, March 19, 2003
As you may have heard, Colorado (and the Denver-Boulder metroplex particularly) is getting inundated with snow. I'm so jealous. Here's an on-the-scene report via email from Gaz:
Boulder, CO 10:10am [CST]
Going on about 36 consecutive hours of snow here. Some areas in the high country have gotten up to 7 feet of snow already. The news is reporting about 2 1/2 feet in Denver and surrounding metro areas, and Boulder is pretty close to that. The snow doesn't look quite as deep as that because of the high moisture content; it's a lot of wet heavy snow.
I'm home from work, logged in. The office is pretty much closed as the dept of transportation has requested only essential traffic out there. Good day to be trapped at home. I think it's time for another bagel.
DIA [Denver International Airport] is closed now. No flights in or out. [His girlfriend] was supposed to fly in to DIA at about 4pm today, but she called at 5:30am this morning when that flight was already cancelled. She scrambled to get another one scheduled for tomorrow and got booked for a late flight into Colorado Springs. The latest on the news is that there is a tear in that pointy canvas roof at DIA, closing parts of the terminal.
The news just reported this is the second biggest storm in Denver history, topped only by a 4-foot blizzard in 1913.
Gotta go...the bagel just popped out of the toaster.
Addendum: the snow's affecting NCAA tournament teams, too - just ask the Catamounts.
Boulder, CO 10:10am [CST]
Going on about 36 consecutive hours of snow here. Some areas in the high country have gotten up to 7 feet of snow already. The news is reporting about 2 1/2 feet in Denver and surrounding metro areas, and Boulder is pretty close to that. The snow doesn't look quite as deep as that because of the high moisture content; it's a lot of wet heavy snow.
I'm home from work, logged in. The office is pretty much closed as the dept of transportation has requested only essential traffic out there. Good day to be trapped at home. I think it's time for another bagel.
DIA [Denver International Airport] is closed now. No flights in or out. [His girlfriend] was supposed to fly in to DIA at about 4pm today, but she called at 5:30am this morning when that flight was already cancelled. She scrambled to get another one scheduled for tomorrow and got booked for a late flight into Colorado Springs. The latest on the news is that there is a tear in that pointy canvas roof at DIA, closing parts of the terminal.
The news just reported this is the second biggest storm in Denver history, topped only by a 4-foot blizzard in 1913.
Gotta go...the bagel just popped out of the toaster.
Addendum: the snow's affecting NCAA tournament teams, too - just ask the Catamounts.
# posted by Thomas : 1:43 PM
