Rocky Mountain Snowstorm of '03

Twin Sisters Valley, Colorado, Early morning, March 19, 2003. It is eerie in the house this morning, we got so much more snow overnight...Hans measured 29" in the last 24 hours, and that's on top of 19" yesterday morning. That roof that he shovelled yesterday? Well, you can't see out the bathroom window that looks onto it. The light that's coming through the snow is a ghostly blue. Same thing is happening in the room where this computer is, I have a window that overlooks the porch roof, but it's completely blocked with snow, there's just that ghostly blue seeping through near the top. I dreamed of being buried alive last night. (Click on any of the thumbnails for a larger image.)

6:21 a.m. The wagon wheel. The snowshoes. (Pretty soon we're just going to be able to take a picture of a white napkin and tell you it's anything, and you'll believe us, right?)

The vehicles.

Conehead. Wow.

The south meadow. I wonder if the fence will get completely covered?

The hot tub deck.

6:45 a.m. Hans ventures out on the snowshoes to take the morning snow observation...

(You can see it yourself, we're the station just south of Hwy 119, reporting 29.0" on the Boulder County New Snowfall Map)

Arrow likes to help, even today. (Semi thinks it's all very silly, and is hunkered down next to the heater in the bathroom.)

("Hmm. I just *know* there are mice under here...somewhere...")

6:57 a.m. Morning observation on Twin Sisters.

("Do I *have* to come back in?")

In a fit of complete lunacy, I decide that we should at least try to shovel a small path near the door. Twenty minutes later, I'm completely soaked, and this is all I have to show for my labor.

For those of you who have been in our music studio, this is the view out the window, looking toward the workshop. We still have power, but the lights are flickering. And it's still snowing.



Mary Jo Brodzik <maryjo@mric.net>
Last modified: Sat Mar 22 13:17:59 2003