Virtual Mirage http://symbolic-mirage.blogspot.com
is promoting the concept of global cooling and the coming ice age. He may be
right given what is happening in the Colorado Mountains.
Roads are closed everywhere and some
communities nearly isolated (Leadville, Silverton).
Living on the Western side of the Divide,
winters are rated by the number of wires covered on a four strand barbed wire
fence. A normal winter is a ‘three wire’. A bitch of a winter is when the posts
are covered. A ‘one or two’ wire winter means no irrigating water come summer.
Leading up to February, a ‘two wire’
seemed to be happening. Now? Irrigating water won’t be short.
This winter’s weather pattern has shifted
South. Wyoming is having a mild (by Wyoming standards) winter. Arizona? Read LL’s
blog.
The topography of Colorado is such that
many highways are built in the bottom of canons or alongside cliffs. I-70
through Glenwood Canyon is a good example or Red Mountain Pass. In addition to avalanches, rock
slides often block the highway with rocks the size of small houses coming down.
As we get deeper into Spring with freeze/thaw cycles, look out!
Not all the news is bad. Thirty days or
longer of sub-zero weather goes a long ways to killing off the pine beetles.
Want to escape to your dream retreat in
the Rockies? Please consider this.
A really great winter would be avalanches
engulfing the imported (P)regressives infesting the mountain towns IMO. YMMV
