Sunday, May 22, 2011
Snow, snow everywhere
And when the record snowpack in the Rockies melts is a cause of much concern to people downstream.
Thanks to a blizzard-filled winter and an unusually cold and wet spring, more than 90 measuring sites from Montana to New Mexico and California to Colorado have record snowpack totals on the ground for late May, according to a federal report released last week.The last time there was a snowpack like this was 1983 and since then a lot of people have built themselves in harms way, maybe. Some are ready for the worst and some aren't. No one really knows what will happen because they are all waiting on the weather.
Those giant and spectacularly beautiful snowpacks will now melt under the hotter, sunnier skies of June — mildly if weather conditions are just right, wildly and perhaps catastrophically if they are not.
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This is all kinda dependent on where you are in Colorado. In 1969... when I graduated from high school in Boulder... we had an even 100 inch snowfall total. In '83 it was only about 85 inches. Boulder was more troubled in '69 than in '83... but there were other areas that got trounced.
Beaver Creek was kinda newish in '83, and folks hadn't understood Ma Nature all that well when they built those 6,000 Sq Ft vacation home on the mountainsides. When their insurance companies paid to have those houses scraped up out of the creek bottom they gained a better understanding.
Beaver Creek was kinda newish in '83, and folks hadn't understood Ma Nature all that well when they built those 6,000 Sq Ft vacation home on the mountainsides. When their insurance companies paid to have those houses scraped up out of the creek bottom they gained a better understanding.
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