it sounds like from the Black Hills,East the Plains are having their version of the hurricans you guys down south get blasted with..the word is a much as 20 foot drifts as the blizzard moves east..on another site--bwca.com--a guy is trying to get thru to family..no cell phone contact,and ran the local news link..our weather went from shirt sleeve 70's to cold 50's and rain overnite..something to think about when packing for a overnite hike this time of year..

Anyplace it could snow pack like it's winter in fall
Same holds true for spring.... storms come in quick!

Good times if you are prepared for it though.

Man, I am loving it. The temps are down into the low 30s in the morning now here in Denver. I have boxes of cold weather gear and supplies unpacked that I haven't seen in years. Last night I cranked up a lentil stew with extra cayenne, then sat in front of the fireplace and rubbed my belly when I was done eating.

Can hardly wait for my pickup to get here so I can head up in the high country and have some fun. Coyote season will be here soon. Time to get some new white suits for snow hunting time.

I am a program control manager for a large Project management/consulting organization. I was working on the Seminole County Capital Improvement Program while in Florida, now I am on a big city of Denver program. Prior to Florida, I was in Brisbane Australia, and before that I was in Manhattan, and before that I was in Baghdad, doing pretty much the same sort of work. Before Baghdad I was working in my other career, which is as a Telecoms specialist. Weird huh?

My previous stay in Colorado was a brief one. It was in between Baghdad and New York, wrapping up my Baghdad work before changing employers. But I love it here, and so does the wife, and so when I moved her down (before I realized I would be going to New York), she stayed here while I travelled, except for a few months last winter when she was with me in Florida for a spell.

If there was anything I could bring with me from Florida, it was my experience with some of the people there. As with anyplace I have been in life, it is the people I interact with that my memories focus around the most. There was lots to do, but the things that stand out the most are the activities I partook with friends and family. Regrettably, you and I never got to meet, but we've shared plenty enough here for me to call you friend.

Hope that's worth something. I don't have so many of those, y'know.

Well, there ya go.

Me too I reckon.

Huh?? 20' - wow, that's only 20' more than what we have and I live only 300 miles north of that area! Who said Canada was cold???

Roarmeister--i think your in what we call "too cold to snow" type of territory--

Temp got to 0*C today (having a cold spell) which is about 5* cooler than normal. However, when I was a kid we usually had several centimetres of snow on the ground by now. It seems that with global warming we've been getting an extended "fall" season more often and later into the calendar year.

BTW, I always get a kick out of you Americans when you say "northern plains" or "northern Rockies"! The plains and Rocky mountains physically go all the way up to the Yukon territory.

thats north for us..and we do say Canadian Plains,Canadian Rockys and yes we know they are bigger..
someplace i heard that there were parts of Canada that
have never been seen--

Whassamatter? Didn't you know the world revolved around us?

I've only made it to Canada a couple of times, and never long enough. I'd love to take a couple of months and go up north to play!

Excellent.

Blizzards push the ducks south.


Duck, meet Mr. Benelli.

Boy, sorry I missed this thread. It's a little late now, so I already forgot some of what happened, but it sure was a fun little blizzard. I'm currently going to college in Rapid City and it wasn't to good here. Th interstate was closed until Friday night and I didn't try going to my family's ranch until Saturday. My home lies some 140 or so miles north of the black hills and to be honest I think we got hit worse there than in Rapid. Even on Saturday, the roads were a mix of ice with slush on it to ice. In several places some small power transmission lines were broke which I'm sure thrills the electric company since they jut replaced them last spring. On my family's ranch there were some large drifts and broken trees. I know that during the storm some people had there cattle drift several miles after breaking out. Here in Rapid most of the snow has melted, but back home not much of it has melted and it just snowed another five inches or so last Friday, which made for another fantastic trick home. I know more happened, but that's the high(or low) points of that little blizzard. I would have to guess that it has been the biggest blizzard that has hit my home area (Bison,Lemmon area) in the past five years or so.

Oh wow, I spent spring break on a ranch in Bison, SD my freshman year at SDSU back in 1987. If you happen to know Heidi Burkhard (spelling?) tell her Blast says Hi.

Dang, she's got to be forty now, too...

-Blast

Shoot. The name rings a bell, but I can't think of who that is right now. I'll have to ask one of my parents when I get home.