Denver Blizzard

[VictorBravo]

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I flew from Chicago to Las Vegas last night...solid cloud cover over the Rockies to quite an altitude (estimate to 20000 feet or so).

But nice & sunny here in town. I've not lost too much dosh (yet).

Rob

The key to Las Vegas, Rob, is that every time you go to put $5 down on a gaming table, tell yourself you're about to lose another 15 minutes of flight time in your logbooks. When you're 100 years old drooling on your shirt in an old age home, the adventure of that 15 minutes in the air will be a lot more valuable than the 15 seconds at the blackjack table!

The best piece of advice on Vegas I ever got was from a chronically addicted lifetime gambler who lost as many millions as the millions he made as an entertainer. He said to me "you know, Bill, they can't put up these multi million dollar hotels by losing money..."

That was when the hotels only cost "multi" millions to put up, instead of half a billion or whetever it is now.

[flyguy]

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Strange in central California too. Very little rain so far this year. It is all crashing big time on Washington state. The Ski reports are showing only 0-15 inches of snow in the mountains. Have had many clear moderate days with cold nights. Pretty unusual for this late in the year. But that is the thing about weather that keeps it interesting.
DC

[Forrest Barber]

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I have been off list for a week, called Ed O'Brien yestersday and should have checked in here firstfor the updates. I was in Denver a few weeks ago viewing Ed's airplane. Visited Univair and Ed & Susie and the "boys" showed me a great time. It is raining here, what a mess I will go away again for two days for the Holidays. will post the latest insert to the newsletter this afternoon.

[Ed O'Brien]

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Tribe;
Another blizzard for Denver (see CNN/Weather Channel for details). By tomorrow we'll have another 1-2 feet. For those of you complaining about "no snow"... get to Denver and help dig, for god's sake! My wife and I went to Costco and now have enough supplies to outlast this winter, bird flu, the next Al Queda attack, and nuclear winter too. I feel like a survivalist. I broke my snow shovel and can't buy a new one (everywhere I've looked they're sold out) so I'll require melting to get rid of this next batch. Or perhaps, when I've had enough cabin fever, I'll attack it with hair dryers and kitchen utensils.

I'm unsure about global warming and about how much snow it takes to make glaciers... we seem to be laughing-off the former, while busily attempting the latter.

My Golden Retrievers are as restless as squirrels. So, I best walk while I can, come back home, drink some more coffee, stoke the fire, then go to bed, and get up tomorrow and do the same. Back-to-back-to-back Blizzards keeps ones habits as plain as a Quaker funeral.
With New Year regards;
ED OBRIEN

[ROllerton]

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Snowing here in Patagonia (go to www.weatherunderground.com and put in 85624 for the zip, thats my weather station at flux canyon)

Got to go out and cut some more firewood, Tucker needs the stove warm for his nap!

[crispy critter]

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Ed,
Send us a couple feet of that beautiful white stuff.....we would love to have it. When I was a kid it was normal for us east kentucky folks to get around 20-30 inches per years with the occasional 2 foot all at once blizzard but it has been a long time since we've seen any measurable snow. The last good winter we had was 1993/1994 with a 10inch blizzard starting on Christmas Eve and woke up X-mas morning to a beautiful sun glistined blanket of snow.However by the eve of Christmas day it was snowing again and we had 32 inches on the ground the morning of the 26th followed by sub-zero temps and a 3 inch ice storm on new years eve followed by my first wedding on new years day,followed by 16 more inches of snow on the 2nd and 3rd of jan that kept us snowed in our new rental house for almost a week(what a honeymoon that was....talk about walking bow-legged,lol). All in all I think that winter topped records for this area with a total of over 60 inches of snow for the year. We have had a couple good snows since then but nothing like it used to be when I was a kid. A few inches here and there and almost always gone within a day or two. Soooooo, SEND US SOME SNOW!!!!!!! Please.

[Robert Lees]

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I'm not looking forward to the return trip through O'Hare on Sunday. Let's hope it's not too bad .

I made a fortune in Las Vegas...what's all this about folks LOSING money? I'll be taking my $16.00 back to the old country and I'll buy a few beers.

In Southeast Utah now..no lying snow here, although we had a little flurry this morning.

Rob

[Grant S. Bailey]

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I think the big fella upstairs is trying to confuse us all. The attached picture may just look like two joes in a canoe, but this is Christmas day in Northern Ontario!! Normally on Christmas day, we would be skating with all of the neighbors on a foot of ice at this same location.

[Ed O'Brien]

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From Denver: Panic has not set in, contrary to various TV reporters covering our snow predicament. Even if panic were to set in... we couldn't run into the street screaming and cursing. For if we did, we hit a blanket of snow and find our utterances muffled or silenced by our mouths full of snow. Strangely the weathercasters are not offering a total of snow for the whole, now expected to be, 4 day event. The fact is, they're unsure. However, this reticense might mean they're afraid to tell us. Fearful that we can't take the news. Likely to just end it all and take the easy way out rather than face another dig-out, followed closely by another blizzard.

As Christmas presents we received several hams... Some
smoked, some honey-cured. We have about 25 lbs of ham in the freezer. I can't imagine how tired of ham I'll be after consuming the 20th pound. I'm thinking that the Donner Party really had enough food. However, their canibalism was out of bordum only. You know kind of like a very earnest game of Monopoly. Another blizzard could begin similar festivities in Denver. Stay tuned -- you never know what will happen next.
With regards;
ED OBRIEN

[Forrest Barber]

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Hi Ed wish I was there , We would make the best of it... Bugg has sent outline, I will be ready. Hi Susi , Hi "Boys" Kelli sends her best.
I just wish we had the ground frozen....

[M Towsley]

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Ed,

Is UPS still delivering? Maybe we could send you a shovel or two, or maybe not if you don't feel like digging. Stay warm and don't over exert yourself, I enjoy your posts too much!

Rob,

Hate to be the bearer of bad news but.........O'Hare sucks, but usually only when the snow is here in Illinois and it was 50 degrees today with maybe 55 tomorrow in central Illinois, about 200 miles south of Chicago. So you may luck out as long as the rest of the airline industry stays sane. We recently got stuck for six hours because the flight planning service went offline. Whatever happened to the old fashioned way?

Anyway, good luck to you both!!!

[whake]

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While you were looking at that white stuff I was flying my BC12D in beautiful clear skys and about 8 knots of wind here on the gulf coast, temperature 78 degrees

[cpirrmann]

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Yep, mostly clear and sunny here in Georgia. beautiful flying weather year round. That's why I left the snow and cold to you guys.

[Ed O'Brien]

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We now expect the Denver blizzard to continue through Sunday. SO, What the Lord Gives the Lord Takes Away: When I got up this morning we had another and additional 5 inches of snow on the ground. So the backyard dog-poo, which stands out against the pearly white snow, has gratefully disappeared. My neighbors I am sure approve. This doggie material will be ground up through a process of glaciation. Ground up to a fertilizer or better yet oil! In my backyard, on a much smaller scale, there are huge geologic forces. Grinding down dog-poo, maybe digging a glacial moraine like Rocky Mountain National Park. When this Blizzard thing is finally over. I may have an oil well AND tourist attraction under the ever increasing blanket of white. As you can tell, I have a lot of time on my hands and my imagination is the only thing allowed to run free.
With Regards;
ED OBRIEN

[Jim Herpst]

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Ed...If it helps any I am looking out my office window here in Columbia SC from the rear of my home.. sky clear blue expect high 60s today. BUT I have no plane to fly at the moment...... SOO its to the shop I go with the dream of flying again some day in the next year while you dream of flying again soon as well (you will be flying sooner ,,,again if that helps)