It's snowing like crazy in Boulder Co., CO.

[Laffy Kat]

Sticky, wet, heavy snow. I've had to go out twice in the last hour and brush off my satellite dish. I'm heading down south tomorrow, Arkansas, Florida, Arkansas again, then home. Of course, it will probably be beautiful here again by the weekend.

[fizzgig]

1. yeah, it's coming down pretty steadily up here in the fort

and the forecast is saying we could get up to five or six inches out of it and it's supposed to be lousy until sunday. i'm taking a long weekend and was hoping to spend a fair amount of time outside, but looks like i'll just hunker down until sunday or monday.

safe trip

[Laffy Kat]

2. At least we need the moisture. nt

[fizzgig]

4. i'm not too chuffed about it

gods know we need the moisture, but that doesn't mean i'm not going to complain about it

[Arugula Latte]

3. I've spent a lot of time in Colorado in different times of year.

You guys sure have some crazy ass weather! The Front Range just likes to fuck with you.

[Laffy Kat]

6. True. They say if you don't like the weather just wait 20 minutes.

Honestly though, I moved here in 1981 and for the first ten years I lived in this area, it would thunderstorm almost every day during the summer. You could set your clock by it: T-storms and showers starting at about 3:30 in the afternoon finishing by 5:00. These days summers are so, so dry. We get snows and rain in during the spring months and then nada. Something weird is goin' on.

[fizzgig]

8. i loved those afternoon storms

i don't really remember the summers being so hellacious when i was a kid.

[Arugula Latte]

9. I lived in the mountains there one summer several years ago. The lightning storms were unbelievable.

We had electric appliances blown out from a couple of them. It was like Zeus was hurling bolts at us.

I was in the Denver area late last summer and I have to say it was much greener than I expected.

[Laffy Kat]

10. At one time we got our fair share of tornadoes, too.

They were wimpy funnels, but still...

[kaiden]

11. Those afternoon showers were fantastic!

We always carried an umbrella with us just so we could wait for the bus without getting drenched. Then the evening would clear off. Beautiful. Up in Conifer, we'd get April snow that would dump a couple of feet of snow on us every couple of weeks...then there'd be the two week "monsoon season" the end of July. Summers were lovely. In 2009, those Spring snows stopped. Summers got so hot we thought about buying a swamp cooler (at 8,500 feet!). In 2012 and 2013, Colorado had horrible fires in March and June, but then, starting in July in 2013 and 2014, the monsoon began and wouldn't stop. Flooding was horrible (as you well know). We have goats and llamas, but we live on the side of Reilly Peak. Half the hillside slid down into the compound, mud and muck everywhere. We placed almost 300 pavers out on the level part just so the goaties could walk to the barn. The a-holes who deny climate change should have lived in Colorado for the last 30 years. We see it every damned year.

[Laffy Kat]

12. You're right.

It's just so, so obvious to people living here. Well, to most people living here.

I'm taking off for DIA in a few minutes. The roads look OK. Don't think it got cold enough to ice up.

[kaiden]

13. Safe travels, Laffy Kat!

[kaiden]

5. Supposed to get up to two feet (someplaces three) in the Foothills.

We came to work here in Denver, but will early so we can go load up on water jugs in case the power goes out.

[Laffy Kat]

7. Stay safe, kaiden. nt