The media is calling our snowstorm the Holiday Blizzard of 2006. If the wind hadn’t been blowing 30-40 mph yesterday, I think it would have just been a nice snow storm. Last night on the news they said Colorado Springs got 5-9 inches of snow with up to 18 inches to the north and east. At my house we might have had 3 inches on the sidewalk but when I shoveled it this morning it felt like twice that much because it was so wind packed.
Yesterday I waited to leave work until 4 PM in hopes the traffic would clear out. Academy Boulevard was still just a parking lot so I tried a couple different ways through neighborhoods until I was able to get to Woodmen Road. A lot of the time I could only see about 2-3 car lengths because of the blowing snow.
A lot of people were driving with their emergency flashers on which was good because it was a big help in seeing them. There were lots of abandoned cars stuck in snow drifts. On Academy there were some that were just abandoned in the middle of the traffic lanes without flashers on. According to the news some people got tired of waiting in traffic jams and others ran out of gas from sitting so long. I-25 south bound wasn’t blocked off so I took that home but didn’t see anyone else on it.
Tags: blizzard, Colorado Springs, weather
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Wow!! No biking for you. Just so you have something to write about, you’ve been tagged.
is the building on the last photo WOW / McGinnis building ?
The top of the building in the background is the WOW / McGinnis building. The building in the foreground is the one to the east which is where I work. We’re on the corner of Research and Explorer.
oh yeah that makes sense
I work at WOW but I am off thu/fri and on Wednesday they closed in the afternoon so fortunately I haven’t been there since Tuesday
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