<p>Seattle, glad to hear you’re getting your power back. Now it’s our turn: two feet of snow in Denver, more in the outskirts. 3 of my daughter’s friends are stuck in Colorado at least until Friday - unable to get home either by plane or car. My own car is abandoned in the southern suburbs where I work: a friend with a giant 4-wheel drive truck rescued me after I got stuck in a 3-foot high snowdrift. I WILL NEVER MAKE FUN OF TRUCK-DRIVING SUBURBANITES AGAIN. </p>
<p>At least it looks very Christmasy. And we still have electricity.</p>
<p>Three feet and still snowing here. My wife got back from work yesterday morning just before they closed all of the roads. I never went into work yesterday and it was a good choice.</p>
<p>Usually, when it snows a lot and traffic comes to a standstill, we take our Rubicon and meet friends for breakfast at a local diner. We had plans to do that this morning, but the diner (and everything else) is closed.</p>
<p>One of the problems is that the disruptions will continue even after the airport is open. The planes are so full that they can’t just get the stranded on a flight. Some people who were supposed to fly yesterday are being told that they cannot get onto a flight until at least Sunday.</p>
<p>All I can say is thank goodness for our Chevy Tahoe!!! I could never understand those who “pooh-poohed” SUVs as something that no one should own; obviously they’ve never lived on Monument Hill like we do.</p>
<p>D is “stuck” in Boulder and can’t drive home yet. Still waiting for the roads to open. Her roommate’s flight to Seattle was cancelled yesterday afternoon. Her dad shelled out $900 for a Saturday morning flight. Hope all goes well and she makes it home safely. Many of D’s dorm mates aren’t going to get to fly out until Christmas Day. I feel bad for those kids and their families.</p>
<p>I’m a high school student in Denver, and I missed my last day of finals (wednesday) due to snow day. When school was called off there was only about an inch of snow on the ground, but good that they did it because by the end of the day we couldn’t get out of our house!</p>
<p>I really feel for all the people trapped at the airport. I think there are something like 4500 of them. That would be awful!</p>
<p>My sympathies to Colorado holiday travelers! </p>
<p>kataliamom: A few years ago we had one of those Really Bad Storms where people’s cars were abandoned all over the place. Strangers stayed with strangers that night! There were hardly enough dump trucks in the state to haul off the snow from that storm. I recall sections of highways being closed for a LONG time afterwards as they attempted to get rid of the snow with a armada of backhoes, bulldozers and dump trucks. Cars were stranded on the NY State Thruway for days. </p>
<p>Anyone who didn’t own an SUV SWORE they were going to go right out and buy one. Well, that didn’t last. When they finally cleaned up (about a week and a half later) everybody just went back to their normal lives. </p>
<p>Like Denver, we’re used to snow (Rochester NY), but when you REALLY get hit it is still a surprise how bad it can be. </p>
<p>It’s really unlucky when it happens at a holiday and everyone is hoping to get home…</p>
<p>katliamom, thank you! I’m very excited I was actually planning to meet up with the other two EA admits from Denver today, but I suppose that’s going to have to be pushed back!</p>
<p>The Hub and Spoke system of airline travel has seen its day. On days like these there should be mechanism to fly point to point and to fly planes appropriate to the load.</p>
<p>Right now, I’m counting my blessings that I’m not in or around Denver this time of this year. We’ve only had very light snowfall that generally melted when it hit the ground the times we’ve been to Denver. Being stuck in the airport for extended periods of time during holiday travel would be very rough, especially travelling with young kids. It reminds me of our airport when we had a state-wide power outage due to the earthquake. Things were a mess at the airports for a while until the power came back–fortunately it was not holiday season & we’re not a major hub that connects flights. I’m sure they’ll straighten everything out as soon as they can.</p>
<p>So far, it sounds like people have been safe & no deaths or serious injuries have been reported on the national news. That’s heartening.</p>
<p>Our family is affected by two airports that have weather problems - my in-laws are supposed to fly out of Denver today to visit family in Arizona. Our daughter is en-route from Kenya via Heathrow. Fortunately, she did get off the ground and according to <a href=“http://www.flightview.com%5B/url%5D”>www.flightview.com</a> she should be landing in two hours!</p>
<p>Don’t know what happened to that post, but I also couldn’t edit it… anyway, looks like we might be in for the same as last week (or at least a big storm). One to two feet forecast for my area.</p>
<p>If you have plans taking you through Denver in the next two-three days, you might want to rethink them. I hope the forecast is wrong. We have no place to put the snow.</p>
<p>digmedia~so sorry to hear about the new storm. We had two back-to-back storms like that during January years ago, and it was no fun!</p>
<p>My sisters’ family is skiing in CO this week, coming back through Denver on Sat. Not sure how they will drive in there, or fly out–I guess we’ll know more in the next couple of days!</p>
I was actually planning to meet up with the other two EA admits from Denver today, but I suppose that’s going to have to be pushed back!</p>