Big Snow, maybe

[GilpinGuy]

2003 is my benchmark. 7+ feet.

[flogger]

The Mayor took some heat for that '82 storm for using trash trucks to pack down the snow instead of removal. It must have been a mess in downtown Denver.

That was a butt kicker storm.

[MrPrena]

Okay, it was not 2007, it was 2006 December. Dec. 20-21, 2006 to be exact from website.
My wife's company let employees go home late, and she ended up sleep inside of her vehicle at Interlocken. Crazy thing is that she made it home next morning with Jetta. She said she saw about 6 vehicles total at hwy36.

https://www.9news.com/article/weathe...a-646aae0f4527
https://www.westword.com/news/the-te...denver-8657201

[rondog]

Well, 7:30pm here in Parker and don't really have shee-it.....yet.

We moved here in '96, but I was here for a job a year or two earlier and there was a pretty good snowstorm. And we DAMN sure remember that one in Dec 2006! Wife still talks about how she felt lucky to get home alive. I can't seem to remember the 2003 storm though.....

[FoxtArt]

Rain/snow now on the west slope, although we will be missing your big stuff. I have no idea which way things are moving so maybe it is , in fact, coming late....

[HunterCO]

The 82 storm was so bad because the city didnt do shit and the wind drifted it so bad. in 2003 the plows were out from the get go no wind and i have pics of that one also i chained up all four and got out after I snow blowed all day and night to keep up with it. each side of my drive way was over ten feet tall. If you would have had the wind of 82 in 2003 it would have been much worse. you cant always judge accumulation the wind can make it much worse.

[hollohas]

Agreed. Wind is a big deal. I can't seem to get a solid read on what the wind predictions are for tomorrow. Local weather says no significant wind. NWS says 35mph, which is no joke in a snowstorm.

Maybe 1.5" on the grass here in WSW Metro. Blacktop still clear. Hardly anything currently falling. Major let down.

[BPTactical]

Christmas 82 blizzard. I didn’t make it home for four days and got damn little rest during that period. I was driving a tow truck at the time for the company that had the Denver towing contract (C&C Towing).
The city was basically shut down for a solid week, even if you were able to dig yourself out you couldn’t get far because roads were impassable due to stuck cars. I started at 2am one morning clearing cars off of I25 heading north from I225. I finally finished 14 hours later at 58th Avenue. 400 some odd stuck cars pulled out of traffic lanes by any means and dumped on side streets at the closest exit. I didn’t bother taking them out of gear, hook it, skid it, shove it, drag it by the bumper it didn’t matter, had to get them cleared so the highway could get plowed. The Highway Department had fun helping clear the highway, a plow and loader can fuck some shit up.
The next night I had to do the same thing on 14th Avenue from Broadway to Yosemite, same mode of operation, clear the road by any means. I pulled over a light pole winching myself out causing about 6 blocks to go dark. That was 12 hours with just over 200 cars moved.
I had a guy flag me over at Hampden and Monaco, when I pulled over he said he needed a ride to the airport, I told him I wasn’t a taxi. 5 crisp Benjamin’s got him to the airport.
Even once they got the roads clear there was so much hard pack and ice on the roads you would get stuck in the ruts. I remember not being able to change lanes on Evans because the wheel track ruts were so deep.

That blizzard was instrumental in getting Federico Pena elected as Mayor of Denver, he pushed the narrative of McNichols mismanaging the response to the storm and Pena promised to use trash trucks with plows to clear residential streets.
Guess who got to pull out stuck trash trucks the next year?

Good times.

March of ‘03 was good, I was with CDOT and our patrol plowed 36, 287, 121 and 128. We fared ok, we chained up early and didn’t get any plows buried. A few other patrols got trucks stuck and once that happened they lost roads.

[Ramsker]

Agreed. Wind is a big deal. I can't seem to get a solid read on what the wind predictions are for tomorrow. Local weather says no significant wind. NWS says 35mph, which is no joke in a snowstorm.

Maybe 1.5" on the grass here in WSW Metro. Blacktop still clear. Hardly anything currently falling. Major let down.

We've got maybe an inch on the roads here and it's barely snowing right now. A lot can change overnight and this may yet hit hard tomorrow. But up to this point, it's much closer to "No-mageddon" than "Snowmageddon".

[Doc45]

City plow just made a pass down my street. Centennial plows residential streets thankfully, still only about 2”, be interesting to see what the morning will be. Don’t forget to set your time keeping devices ahead an hour.