Hi Neighbor!
Several weeks after the G-town elections a nasty story blew into G-town. It began snowing on the morning of the fifth day of the week. G-town residents were not to concerned. The weather folks get it right about every 6 years. Wouldn't you know it six years, a month and a few days later this ornery storm was on us.
For those of us that were keeping count the electric went out about a half dozen times over two days. At one point the electric was out almost four hours. John over at the Georgetown Market was beside himself. Customers all around and no power... What's a guy to do?
Only a few of us were taking this storm seriously. The old timers knew we were over due for another nasty storm like back in 03.
The foot print of the 09 storm was on us by the morning of the sixth day. It was a snow blizzard! Parts of G-town had over 12 inches of wet snow. It was sure beautiful!
Nancy and I are birders. It was sure obvious this day. The birds were nervous. Hundreds and hundreds of birds flocked to our bird arbor. There were Black Caped Juncos, Slate Juncos, Mountain Chickadees, Red House Finches, Black Birds, Red Winged Black Birds, Black Ringed Doves, Rock Doves Ban Tail Pigeons, American Crows and many other birds coming from every direction from day break to almost night fall. We probably put out around 20 lbs of feed during the storm.
We have two precious chunky beagles, Dovi Bear and Kaleb Tov. They are fifteen inch beagles. They weigh about forty pounds each. They loved the snow. We would take them outside to relieve them selves and they would snow dive. Snow diving for a beagle is like swimming in a pool. They just love the snow and the fresh scents.
My wife, Nancy and I tried to get down to the market. The road was not plowed. We got stuck and had to dig our selves out! We made it to the market just as the power went out. Not to fear we had our checkbook just in case this would happen. We are not seers! We just know things like this happen a lot during gruff storms. Well, we purchased two bags of flour and headed home. We were sure glad to be back home out of the weather.
The storm intensified through the sixth day. CDOT closed Interstate 70 from Morrison to Vail. It was sure peaceful! I-70 remained closed until about 9 the next morning. There were semis lined all along the sides of I-70. Cars and trucks were bumper to bumper waiting for the freeway to open. No one was going any where.
After a nice Shabbat meal Nancy and went out for a snow walk. We talked with several neighbors who were standing on their porches, decks or in garages. It was a nice quite walk.
By the morning on the seventh day the storm was moving out... We were still waiting for our street to be plowed... By this time parts of G-town had over four feet of snow give or take a foot. Neighbors several houses down the way, Jeff and his daughter Nancy came up and shoveled out our car. We really appreciated that. It took about an hour. Jeff is a ski instructor when he can get back and forth to work. Today was not one of those days. An avalanche closed Berthoud Pass.
Later in the day the neighbors next door dug out their vehicles and ours also. That was a real task. It took over three hours. We have mounds of snow everywhere! We sure appreciated it. It was awful nice!
We did not get out until the first day of the week. We drove around took a few pictures and enjoyed the aftermath of the storm. We hope all our G-town neighbors faired well during and after the storm. If you would like to enjoy a post snow day in G-town please feel free to view our pictures with captions of the storm. Index Page - Page 1 - Page 2 - Page 3.
Please feel free to ad you comments and experiences to our blog.
Akiva G.
