According to the news storm is coming!

[ray1970]

Uneventful commute on generally clean roads. Speeds were reduced due mostly to people deciding 25 mph was a good speed. Took a little over an hour to get from Thornton to Aurora. It was nice that the plow trucks had obviously been out before I left for work which typically isn?t the case.

[buffalobo]

You guys in town just need more wind to build the drifts for ya.

Snow day for me today. Spent an hour plowing/shoveling, went inside to warm up and get stuff ready to leave and less than 30 mins later wind had blown most of it back in. Only about 4" so far but 25mph winds make it seem like 12".

[MrPrena]

No school.

[BushMasterBoy]

Hooked up a trickle charger to the truck. Silverado with all the computers eats batteries. You would think OnStar would tell you the battery is low.

[XJ]

Seems to have stopped so I went out to shovel the walk, maybe six inches. Yet another over-hyped ordinary weather event.

[wctriumph]

At 11:12 am up here. Dang, pictures are too big but so far from last night, only about 4 inches.

[Ah Pook]

Everyone posting lives in Colorado. It snows in Colorado. R-e-l-a-x.

[10x]

Twenty inches in northwest Colo Springs and still snowing lightly. Biggest storm we've had in a long, long time.

[.455_Hunter]

~12" west of Boulder. Nice snow!

[theGinsue]

Broke the auger engagement cable on my snowblower doing my neighbors drive. Now have 2 of those cables on order.

Had to go into work @ 11 this morning.

While I expected zero plowing efforts within or on the edge of my subdivision, when I got to Powers Blvd (aka CO Hwy 21), then to Constitution Ave, then Marksheffel Road there was no evidence plows had been over these roads. It wasn't until I got onto Hwy 94, heading East that I could tell plows had been through hours earlier.

Left work @ 3:30 and Hwy 94 was a little sketchier but Colo Spr city roads were exactly the same (perhaps another inch added).

I read a KKTV.com article last night stating that the city was getting their equipment ready to handle the snow covered roads. I guess they're still getting it ready as I saw no evidence of their presence at any point since the snow started falling and saw no plows on any of the streets I was on (note: I'd typically see a couple of them making secondary passes by now; nope.)

While my F250 in 4WD with new All Terrain's only had minor issues a couple of times, I suspect my wife will have serious issues tomorrow in her Civic unless the plows start removing some of the snow from the roads.

Serious question to those "in the know": Which is honestly worse for the roads (and ultimately worse for taxpayers), lowering the plow blade to asphault level where the blade will get worn down more quickly (vice 1-2" above - which causes transportation ice rinks), or melting snow/ice into cracks which then re-freezes and causes potholes? ETA: FULL DISCLOSURE: Growing up in MO near KC and in my 3.5 yrs in MA near Boston the plows trucks always had their blades down to road level and they were much safer than what I've seen since '95 when I moved to CO.