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By education and experience - Accountant with a specialty in taxation. Formerly a CPA (license has lapsed). Masters degree in law of taxation from University of Denver. Now retired. Part time work during baseball season as receptionist & switchboard operator for the Colorado Rockies. This gig feeds my soul in ways I have trouble articulating. One daughter, and four grandchildren. I share the house with two cats; a big goof of a cat called Grinch (named as a joke for his easy going "whatever" disposition); and Lady, a shelter adoptee with a regal bearing and sweet little soprano voice. I would be very bereft if it ever becomes necessary to keep house without a cat.
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Wintertime on the Great Plains
I've lived along the front range of the Rocky Mountains since January of 1975. The first plains blizzard I encountered was two months later. I've lived through several since then - and am always impressed at what the collision of weather fronts can produce along the edge of the Rockies.
When low pressure connected with a moisture source centers itself around the panhandle of Oklahoma, the counterclockwise flow of the wind operates to slam the storm up against the mountains from the northeast, and we get snow. LOTS of snow.
Beginning about 6 am yesterday and continuing into this morning, we got 30 inches.
You can see what our front yard looks like by going here:
http://tinyurl.com/yjffnr
We have a clear driveway at the moment, all the way to the street. BUT it's been awhile since the snowplows have been through, when they do, we'll have to shovel out again. We live on a bus route which provides public transportation during rush hour AM & PM, so plows give our street priority. There was no bus service today, but when it resumes, the plows will be out in force.
A great deal of the Denver area is in a type of suspended animation. Airport closed, all muncipal governments closed for all the various suburbs and the city itself (with the exception of public safety crews), many shopping malls closed (no way for retail workers to get to work or to get into the parking lots if they did get there), most major highways closed last evening, and are beginning to open up one by one.
We were fortunate in that we didn't need groceries or have any crucial appointments. So yesterday we stayed cozied up inside.
Should be able to get out to the grocery store tomorrow.
As a kid, I inhaled all the Laura Ingalls Wilder books. Her descriptions of a plains blizzard are remarkably accurate. If you'd like to read about them in prose which is better than mine, find one of the later books in the series and read up!
When low pressure connected with a moisture source centers itself around the panhandle of Oklahoma, the counterclockwise flow of the wind operates to slam the storm up against the mountains from the northeast, and we get snow. LOTS of snow.
Beginning about 6 am yesterday and continuing into this morning, we got 30 inches.
You can see what our front yard looks like by going here:
http://tinyurl.com/yjffnr
We have a clear driveway at the moment, all the way to the street. BUT it's been awhile since the snowplows have been through, when they do, we'll have to shovel out again. We live on a bus route which provides public transportation during rush hour AM & PM, so plows give our street priority. There was no bus service today, but when it resumes, the plows will be out in force.
A great deal of the Denver area is in a type of suspended animation. Airport closed, all muncipal governments closed for all the various suburbs and the city itself (with the exception of public safety crews), many shopping malls closed (no way for retail workers to get to work or to get into the parking lots if they did get there), most major highways closed last evening, and are beginning to open up one by one.
We were fortunate in that we didn't need groceries or have any crucial appointments. So yesterday we stayed cozied up inside.
Should be able to get out to the grocery store tomorrow.
As a kid, I inhaled all the Laura Ingalls Wilder books. Her descriptions of a plains blizzard are remarkably accurate. If you'd like to read about them in prose which is better than mine, find one of the later books in the series and read up!
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