Anybody left who still thinks Colorado weather is always "mild?" (Denver: house, move to)
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If I recall, that one was an f4....and only one injury in the whole town.....when one of my old classmates had a trailer fall over on her....but it did trim all of the beautiful old trees so none were higher then 20feet
That lady was my neighbor! We were the second trailor from the end and ours was the only one standing in that four trailor chunk. If I remember correctly, her injury would have been a lot worse if that mattress hadn't flipped over on her. She was very lucky... The neighbor to the other side of us (on the end) was in the house with his three kids when it flipped into our yard. My dad's roto-tiller was holding up the back part of his trailor. They made it out unharmed physically but it took the youngest boy a year to start talking again.
And I think there was one other guy who got injured in his bathtub... broken jaw... but yes... very few injuries otherwise. We have the golf-ball sized hail to thank for that, I'm sure... it definately wasn't our tornado siren. It blew all of 1.5 minutes before the tornado took it out. People were already taking cover because of the huge hail.
What I remember was that downtown was flat on one side of the street... but the other side was untouched. It went through the cemetary to get to the trailor park... many head stones were thrashed... my grandfather's included.
And it was initially rated an F4 but since there were no deaths, it was downgraded to an F3 (so the story was told to me as a 12 year old)... and there was more than one tornado and one of the tornados had two tails.
I was only 12 at the time but you don't forget losing your house. The place was full of people who didn't know the locals from the gawkers. We had to carry around tags that said we belonged and had to be escorted into the trailor park just to see what there was to salvage. The school was packed with all sorts of donated items for those of us who lost everything. We stayed in a motel for three months before my parents bought a new house on O avenue.
News Channel 4 actually made a great video of the coverage that I still have. We have pictures of our house and newspaper clippings. I even have the "I survived the Limon Tornado" tee shirt. Mine was pink and I can no longer fit into it but I'll always have it.
I am new and have already had enough of this. Every thread I have went to contained this.
Good thing jazzlover doesn't work for the Chamber, she would ensure that nobody ever visited Colorado at any point in time-ever because it is clearly colder than Antartica. Could even single handedly cost the State millions in revenue each year by running off helpless vacationers that want to spend. lol. Here in Tennessee up in the clouds of Ten Mile we have 65MPH winds weekly from Tornados, floods great enough to build arks, frost thicker than paint and snow from December through May and then the very next week hit temps over 100 come Spring/Summer and every State has it's good points and bad points. Maybe instead of telling us why it is so bad not to go there and try to make lives for ourselves because nobody in the USA but you can handle it, maybe you can change the tune and tell us ALL why YOU still live there? And what YOU do there for work to earn income and survive? *hugs*
I am new and have already had enough of this. Every thread I have went to contained this.
Good thing jazzlover doesn't work for the Chamber, she would ensure that nobody ever visited Colorado at any point in time-ever because it is clearly colder than Antartica. Could even single handedly cost the State millions in revenue each year by running off helpless vacationers that want to spend. lol. Here in Tennessee up in the clouds of Ten Mile we have 65MPH winds weekly from Tornados, floods great enough to build arks, frost thicker than paint and snow from December through May and then the very next week hit temps over 100 come Spring/Summer and every State has it's good points and bad points. Maybe instead of telling us why it is so bad not to go there and try to make lives for ourselves because nobody in the USA but you can handle it, maybe you can change the tune and tell us ALL why YOU still live there? And what YOU do there for work to earn income and survive? *hugs*
First, I am a "he." Second, I've been studying Colorado climate and weather for over 40 years now. Colorado climate has many positive points, but being consistent, benign, and continually mild are not among them. That's just a fact. Sorry if that does not coincide with the Chamber of Commerce drivel that implies otherwise. By the way, unlike a lot of other posters on this forum, I accept Colorado's climate for what it is. A lot of people who move here can't, and--after a few years--they move on. I also don't put a lot of stock in the posts from people who have lived here for one or two seasons, or in one or two places in Colorado (or never lived here at all), then profess to know everything about the climate of this state. I have lived all over Colorado for over a half-century, and traveled just about every square mile of it. So, when I describe the climate of a location in Colorado, it isn't only because I've read it in the climatic records--I've usually been there to experience it personally, often many times. I've also personally observed just about every type of extreme weather event in the state at one time or another--tornadoes, floods, blizzards, avalanches, forest fires--all of it.
No, I don't work for the Chamber of Commerce, and promoting Colorado for tourism or otherwise is not my duty. What I generally post is the reality--albeit sometimes sort of harsh--of what Colorado can be truly like. If people want their sanitized versions of this place, or the propaganda hype, they can skip my posts and move right on to Colorado.com or countless other websites that will be glad to espouse the "everything is wonderful" party line.
Shame we'll get out of october w/o snow around denver. Come on high pressure ridge! Schooch!
The Jet Stream took the "storm" to areas back east (ha ha). There is MAJOR snow in PA and NY, plus the World Series in on hold until at least Wednesday night. Meanwhile we're in the upper sixties or even low seventies, a great climate IMHO, lots of sunshine, dry air, few bugs and with without hurricanes, earthquakes, humidity or other serious/regular unpleasantness.
As they say in Denver, stick around for an hour, the weather will change. Before you know it, temps will be below freezing and snow will be filling the roads.
Then CDOT will be spraying their poisonous MAG-C all over the roads. Nice to have your car rot out with rust in a few years and short out your electric system. Then let's not forget all the plant life that dies, along with the polluting of the streams and rivers that kills off the aquatic life!
They put an "glue agent" in the poisonous mix that causes the MAG-C to stick to the roads. Unfortunately, it sticks to your car like glue. Eating away at the electrical, brakes, metal, and everything else it touches.
Personally, I was getting a little worried about the whole Chamber of Commerce party line. I got a serious lift in spirits when city-data posters began debunking the "300 days of sunshine a year" myth, indicating that Colorado climates are unpredictable, highly varied and unreliable.
Personally, I've had enough of "300 days of sunshine a year" between Phoenix and the San Fernando Valley. Thunderstorms? Wind? Clouds? Occasional precipitation, and sometimes even a crazy blizzard or two? Yes, please. "But most of the year is mild!" Fine. Even so, I'm thrilled for the parts of the year that aren't.
Just for the record in regards to this thread about the weather being "mild" in Colorado:
The low temperature in Denver on December 14th, 2008 dropped to -18F below zero at 6:35 PM. So that establishes a new record low temperature for December 14th breaking the old record of -14F degrees set in 1901.
Then on December 15th, 2008 the temperature bottomed out at -19F degrees below zero at 2:31 am. This is a new record low temperature for December 15th breaking the old record of -6 set in 1951.
A wind chill of -40F below zero was recorded also.
I don't care if anybody thinks this cold snap is 'mild' by Antarctic standards.
It's effin' COLD out there...the kinda cold that hurts to breathe deeply and instantly freezes nose hairs and watery eyes.
I'll be working on my Man Card tomorrow, sitting in a hole in a cornfield, waiting for geese.
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