Colorado snow storm

[aurora]

Is everyone staying warm? It's such a wet storm! It was up to my knees in the field near my house when I took my dog for a walk this evening. Very curious to see what the official totals are tomorrow.

[pixy0stix]

We're on the lower end of the accumulation totals. I can't believe how much snow other areas got.

[bunnies]

I just went outside - up to my knees! Southside of Denver.

[neverfstop]

Gah- I’m supposed to drive down to Denver tomorrow… didn’t realize this was epic level enough to warrant a post on the board board! We are leaving an hour earlier than we normally would to allow for the roadways on I 70….

[pixy0stix]

Mar 14, 2024 20:24:14 GMT -5 neverfstop said:

Gah- I’m supposed to drive down to Denver tomorrow… didn’t realize this was epic level enough to warrant a post on the board board! We are leaving an hour earlier than we normally would to allow for the roadways on I 70….

In all seriousness, is I70 open? It's supposed to snow all night and it's been closed most of today.

[mrspez07]

We went snowshoeing in the park around 4:30, 6-18” with the drifts but honestly I think so much of it has compressed or melted, there was plenty of slush in the gutters and around areas that have been shoveled. I’m on the west/southwest side of town.

Driving to the airport at 2:30 AM to get DS1 on a flight for a big school trip tomorrow 🤞

[basilosaurus]

Mar 14, 2024 20:44:01 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Mar 14, 2024 20:24:14 GMT -5 neverfstop said:

Gah- I’m supposed to drive down to Denver tomorrow… didn’t realize this was epic level enough to warrant a post on the board board! We are leaving an hour earlier than we normally would to allow for the roadways on I 70….

In all seriousness, is I70 open? It's supposed to snow all night and it's been closed most of today.

Currently there are traction requirements but it's open, at least near Evergreen where I have friends who got dumped on. They're both commercial pilots, so I'm gonna guess they won't be called in to work anytime soon.

[neverfstop]

Mar 14, 2024 20:44:01 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Mar 14, 2024 20:24:14 GMT -5 neverfstop said:

Gah- I’m supposed to drive down to Denver tomorrow… didn’t realize this was epic level enough to warrant a post on the board board! We are leaving an hour earlier than we normally would to allow for the roadways on I 70….

In all seriousness, is I70 open? It's supposed to snow all night and it's been closed most of today.

The current conditions map is showing open to non-commercial traffic w/o chains .  www.cotrip.org/ 

You all & my mother in law are starting to freak me out!

This is their forecast...

Snow continues to ramp up through Wednesday. Intense snowfall arrives on Wednesday evening and continues through Thursday. Significant snow totals for areas along the Front Range through Thursday night. Very difficult to impossible travel conditions from Wednesday evening through Thursday night from Denver through the Eisenhower Tunnel. Mostly dry weather begins to prevail on Friday and into the weekend. More snow later next week.

[aurora]

Mar 14, 2024 21:02:25 GMT -5 neverfstop said:

Mar 14, 2024 20:44:01 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

In all seriousness, is I70 open? It's supposed to snow all night and it's been closed most of today.

The current conditions map is showing open to non-commercial traffic w/o chains .  www.cotrip.org/ 

You all & my mother in law are starting to freak me out!

This is their forecast...

Snow continues to ramp up through Wednesday. Intense snowfall arrives on Wednesday evening and continues through Thursday. Significant snow totals for areas along the Front Range through Thursday night. Very difficult to impossible travel conditions from Wednesday evening through Thursday night from Denver through the Eisenhower Tunnel. Mostly dry weather begins to prevail on Friday and into the weekend. More snow later next week.

We've been watching COTRIP all day. It was closed for quite a while, open now, almost certainly will close again at some point due to someone with inadequate tires spinning out. It's just a question of when and for how long.

[aurora]

For what it's worth, we've shoveled 3x today and will definitely have to shovel again in the morning (West of town near the foothills).

[definitelyO]

We probably ended up with 12" - 15" in a west Denver suburb. but so disappointed - DS's spring break flight was cancelled in anticipation of the snow (scheduled Th at 6:30am and they cancelled it Wednesday morning 9 hours before it even started to rain) and b/c it's Frontier they weren't able to rebook him and his friends. they're hoping to use the tickets this summer.

[bkseller13]

We're North of Denver, and overall probably got about 6 inches, but we had rain first, then a slushy mix, so ended up with about 3-4 inches that we actually had to shovel, only 1/2 inch overnight. We're West of I-25, but it just stayed too warm for us to get any real accumulation.

[pixy0stix]

We ended up with 4-5 inches of heavy concrete snow overnight.

[aurora]

We ended up with about 22", which we shoveled periodically throughout (4 times). Now of course it's melting fast. Gotta love the March storms!