Big Snow, maybe

[ray1970]

Trust me it was a beast as a 14 year old boy the snow was chest high I have pics it was no joke and yes we survived just fine because back then we were not pussies. It shut the entire city of denver down for over a week nobody could even think of driving. The pics I have would blow your mind the snow was over 3 feet deep in the street unless you had a monster truck or a snowmobile your ass was stuck. I never walked to school both ways uphill either so try another cliche.

Believe me, I wasn?t downplaying that event or your experience.

I was mostly pointing out the continuing misinformation and exaggeration that the ?media? insist on engaging in.

If you believe what you see and hear in the ?news? then this is worse than that storm in the 80?s.

[Doc45]

I wasn't here until '84 but the storms in 1997 and 2003 were pretty intense as well. The bomb cyclone in March 2019 was pretty fun too-I had the older grandson at the Denver Museum and Science when they announced shortly before 10am the museum was closing. My son and his family live in Parker. My trusty old '03 Tahoe got us there pretty easily, sometimes I miss that vehicle.

[MrPrena]

1997 and 2003 was pretty intense. 2007? was crazy too.

1997 was fall, and 2003 was spring. I forgot 2007? season/month.

[Doc45]

Yeah, the spring storm in 2003 had people using their kids' sleds to go grocery shopping at the King Soopers on Hampden/Monaco. Funny seeing people going down the middle of Hampden pulling the sleds.

[Irving]

it shut the city down for a week nobody drove anyplace period. snowmobiles are the only thing that was on the road.

False. People drove all over during that storm. I was inutero and even I know that. Did the '82 storm even make the top three biggest storms on record?

[flogger]

1982 storm, I remember driving home in the snowstorm and thought I would wait till tomorrow to get beer.

Not a wise idea!

We had bought ourselves a Commodore 64 computer that Christmas and that helped pass the time for sure.

[HunterCO]

False. People drove all over during that storm. I was inutero and even I know that. Did the '82 storm even make the top three biggest storms on record?

why do you always insist on talking out your ass yes it did shut the city down you want to see the pics of a time you know nothing about?

[OldFogey]

About 2" on top of the hot tub here in Foco

[FoxtArt]

I heard stories that back in the 60's, it got so cold in GJ that the power lines started snapping, they hadn't anticipated that level of negative temperatures even being possible and didn't put enough static sag into the lines. That said, I wasn't alive, so I can't vouch for it, and the historical weather records I'm finding on a brief online search seem to start with the weather satellites (70's) so I don't know if it is in fact, true. I don't know anyone living there in the 60s to ask anymore, either.

[hollohas]

By the numbers, in Denver at least, 2003 was bigger than '82. Parts of Aurora got 40" in 2003.