It is our first experience with the season here.

It is our first experience with the season here.
by IAND75 (2024-04-18 13:31:26)

In reply to: Springtime in the Rockies posted by BeijingIrish

Yesterday was gorgeous. Clear, 71 deg. Today we’ve had some snow showers, but nothing accumulating. The mountains outside my front door have completely disappeared into the clouds.

The tropical storm force winds last week were impressive, but didn’t do much damage. Although my son in Louisville lost all of the food in their refrigerator as the power company shut off the power for 36 hours to prevent wildfires. About a dozen small ones started when the power was turned back on, but didn’t spread as the winds had died down.

But the 20” of very heavy wet snow we had a couple of weeks ago was the real eye opener. There was a huge amount of damage to the pine trees all around our community. Limbs down everywhere. They are still cleaning up piles of branches.

And it’ll sniw again next month and again in mid-October

No thank you.

October? We got a foot on labor day in 2020

I think it was 95 on Saturday that weekend. Still 80 somethng Sunday. Not going to miss those stupid swings. One morning, I think it was in August, forget which year, I scraped the ice off the car to go to work. By lunch it was 103 (granted, that was 2500 feet downhill, but still...)

Wait, you moved away from Nederland? *

Spring Colorado winds blew my boat off the mooring

Waves on little Horseshoe Lake in Loveland were 4' high on the Eastern shore. The chain holding my ski boat on a mooring snapped. We found the boat wedged onshore half full of mud. Got it fixed up and the prop shaft snapped pulling a skier through the course. Lost the prop but thankfully not the skier.

lots of pines in and around our property/neighborhood

when it snows like that, we go around and use the butt end of shovels and try and periodically knock the snow from them. We still lost a few branches, but not as bad as it's been in the past.

Wooden ball bat was my tool. Retiring in Florida works too *