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I live in Colorado Springs.

About 8" of snow fell last night and it's still coming down. Everything is closed. No school. Lots of businesses closed. Even Fort Carson and Peterson Air Force base are on "essential personnel only" status.

I thought you Alaskans might get a giggle out of that.

KC

Ya.... When I was a kid, we lived in Denver at Lowery AFB - I remember getting snow in May and everything closed down. That's been more than 45 years ago...

What's your elevation?

Probably not unheard of?

Springs is ~6k vertical ASL

ironbender:

We are at 6,400' elevation. Yes, it snows here, several light snow falls each year. Every few years we get one like this. I've lived here since 1976 and we have had three genuine blizzards that I can count. But this is just a little more snow than usual and nothing that you guys in Alaska would even notice.

I just think it's funny that we close everything down for something as insignificant at this. It's afternoon here now and the roads are already starting to dry.

KC

Most of Alaska doesn't get huge snowfalls. In Anchorage we seldom get more than 10" in 24 hours and our annual winter snowfall is 75.5".

I'd spent a lot of time as a kid in the Northern Sierras in California where we'd have 500+" snow years with record years approaching 1000" and was a bit underwhelmed with winters when I moved here in '97. But after 20 years of living with winter conditions for 1/2 the year, ~100" a winter it's enough snow.

That's nothing KC, here in the land of liberals if we get 3 or 4" of snow everything grinds to a halt and the dumbasses get out and bail. They leave their vehicles in the middle of the freeway and literally walk. Most of the liberal losers here are completely incapable of taking care of themselves anyway, they are totally and completely worthless. The asians are unable to drive in the best of weather but snow really f'cks their life up.

Back in January here, but school went on as scheduled.

If.......our wind was snow.....

we'd be diggin' out too........

Years back I was working for IBM in Endicott NY, we had a storm that dumped about a foot of snow I had to drive 200 miles through it south to a vendor in York PA. I got there and they had closed the planet and most of the town because of 3 inches of snow.

Lower 48ers are amusing in winter.

There's now two generations of folks in Colorado that have never seen a serious winter--as when it snows in early November and that same snow is still on the ground in March.......

If we ever have a repeat of the 70's.......it'll clear out a lot of suburban immigrants.

When Gunnison and Crested Butte got all that snow this January they were calling it "historic". When I was skiing in Crested Butte in the 70's my mom has a photo of us on the chairlift when the 'cats had to plow a channel so the chairs could clear the snow. When we got on the chairift the snow was ABOVE our heads.

Casey

Damn... worldwide snow day.

Proof that New Yorkers think the world revolves around them.

That's nothing. Around here all we need is below freezing temperatures and some kind of precipitation to shut the city down.

Ice usually is tricky to drive on for us... snow, no big deal...we usually get ice.

I've even had the fire engine start sliding on ice after parking, before we could get chocks out...