There are a lot of days I look back fondly at the days I spent in Colorado.
Today is not one of them.
Yesterday much of the Rockies and northern Plains were under siege from something called a 'bomb cyclone.'
Winds gusting to nearly 90 mph whipping blizzard like snow creating white-out snow conditions.
Have you ever been on I-70 on the plains east of Denver (where everything is for the most part flat as a table all the way across Kansas) in a driving snow storm? I have. It's a scary experience. Once the snow starts blowing across the interstate, it's actually hard to figure out where the road ends and where the plains begin. Most of the time it's a better idea to simply pull over and wait it out.
Because that's the thing about Colorado.
It snows there. People expect it. Mass panic does not set in the way it does here.
Actually, snow and the skiing industry is a critical part of the state's economy.
The amazing thing is, most of the time, a few hours after it snows, the sun is back out, the snow starts to melt and the streets are clear. The weather doesn't usually paralyze the entire region the way it does here.
Here's a look at how things were in Denver yesterday, courtesy of our sister paper, The Denver Post, where by the way my journalism career started with an internship in the summer of 1978.
Yeah, I've been doing this a long time.
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