Blizzard Thanksgiving 2019 ?

[WillysWagon]

They closed work today !
Woo-Hoo

[00tec]

I would personally like to thank CDOT for plowing the state highway in front of the house (not at all), and not camping out at the truck stop in town.

[Ramsker]

Got a solid foot here in Highlands Ranch already. Thankfully it's pretty light powder so won't be as bad to clear.

[bradbn4]

Ahh, about 8" of fluffy snow here in the Springs.
I just finished shoving out the drive way and brushed off the snow from the truck.

if / when the wind kicks up it will be nasty, but I should be at work by then.

http://www.flashalertcs.net/closures-cats.html

the above link is nice for 'is it closed' in Colorado Springs

[Mtneer]

About 28" here and still snowing. Not going anywhere for a while.

[ray1970]

I?ll take a closer look soon but a quick look out the window and I?m guessing about 4? here.

[hollohas]

About 12" out close to Morrison. Still dumping when I left for work at 6. Brushed my truck off, cleared part the driveway with the snow blower in about 5 minutes and had to brush the truck off again. Drive downtown wasn't horrible but it wasn't packed down too much yet.

[encorehunter]

Barely a dusting down here west of Trinidad.

[buffalobo]

Too much wind to be accurate with snow amounts out here. Maybe 8" and drifting ugly. We will be snowed in by 9AM. Drifts will be too big/deep to drive thru.

We turtled up about 6PM last nite.

Little more north wind or west wind and drifts would be manageable. Right out of northeast, buries my road and cuts thru wind breaks at just the right angle so that drifts are not perpendicular to roadway. They start packing and getting hard with the force of wind and you can no longer blast thru them. You bounce off at an angle.

They funnel everything right to the ditchs as cars bounce off of them.

The state rarely closes 52(which locals appreciate) and rarely announces it. When I76 closes then dumbazz travellers instantly switch to 52 thinking they can get thru. They get sucked in by relative ease of north/south section and travel the 13 miles to my hood where road changes direction to east/west road and they have 18 miles of deep drifts and bluffs for geologic formations. The drifts are hard to read and almost impossible to judge depth.

Travellers with sedans and 2 wheel drive suvs get eaten.

Over the years we have rescued or helped rescue many of these folks. Very few ever realised the danger they were in trying to get thru.

[Aardvark]

3" on the front porch, 5" on driveway, too much on the car *stretch, yawns*. Work is closed. My blankets should still be warm.