Denver Blizzard

[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....

[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

[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.

[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

[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.

[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!

[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

[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.

[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

[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.

[M Jones]

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Rob,

I'm surprised you were able to escape from the state of Chicago, oops, City of Chicago in a timely manner. (I'm sure Mike understands how that works). I absolutely dread flying from O'Hare, especially in winter. Glad you had good weather to get out of there. Enjoy your stay!

Marty,

Yes, I understand. As much as I enjoy most things about visiting the city, it should be its own state! But then, I was born and raised downstate in your neck of the woods also... (Oh yea, long live Miegs Field too!)

I have to travel for work almost every week, and I still avoid O’Hare as much as possible because of weather delay problems. Even though the weather is about the same at RFD and MSN, they're my choices for commercial airports whenever I can make them work out!

Mike

[Ed O'Brien]

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Snow report from Denver:
Our snow, while deep, was actually pretty light. In this storm, 28 inches of snow translated to about 3/4 of an inch of water. In '82, we had 30 inches which translated into 2.5 inches of water. Meaning, this was not a wet snow and rather easy to shovel. It doesn't make good snow men, snow balls, or footing. It doesn't tamp-down, or stay put. It blows around like styrofoam packing beeds. Damndest stuff, this fluff.

The suns out and the neighbors too -- for me there's more shoveling to do! With regards; ED OBRIEN

[mulwyk]

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We're about 300 miles north of Denver...and have no snow at all. Very, very unusual for this area. But we had the same thing last year, a brown Christmas followed by a little "springtime" snow. And the year before it was in the 50's and so dry we could go hiking in the Hills on Christmas day. Wierd.

Myself, I don't mind. But the ranchers and the ski lift operators are sure looking like haunted men.

Is this what Al Gore's climate change looks like?

Bob Gustafson

[Jim Hartley]

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It is going to be a white christmas here in the Matanuska Valley. I can not remember the last one...? Fourteen inches of snow in the last couple of days and that will make a great base for more to come. The NWS says El Nino for us this year and so far they are on track. Fingers crossed!

I finally purchased a digital Camera so I will be posting some ski flying pictures in the near future.

Jim

[48fordnut]

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Dano, you folks up there must like seeing the ground in dec. a new sight.lol. enjoy.