Winter Storm Blasts Colorado, Heads East
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After blasting parts of Colorado with up to 6 feet of snow, the strongest storm of the winter season is now on track to pummel the central plains.
A winter storm warning was issued for parts of western Nebraska, northeastern Kansas and southeastern Iowa.
A little over a foot of snow blanketed parts of Nebraska overnight. Impaired visibility also prompted officials to close Interstate 70, which connects Kansas and Denver, as well as a portion of the eastbound I-70, which connects Denver to the town of Limon.
But for pizza delivery man John Dermon, he had no choice but to drive through the snow and ice.
“I’ve got brand new tires, cause I expect the winter to be Colorado winter. One day it’s gorgeous and the next day, there’s two feet of snow on the ground,” he said.
Officials from the Department of Transportation told the Associated Press they are unsure when the roadways will reopen.
The storm also caused an avalanche of 600 flights, including arrivals and departures, to be canceled from Denver International Airport Friday.
Ski resorts in the Colorado area were enjoying the fresh powder and hoped it would entice people to hit the slopes this weekend.
“It’s been fantastic,” Scott Gales, a spokesman for Echo Mountain, near Denver, told the Associated Press. “We only had about 26 or 27 inches this morning. Now we’re over 40 and it’s still snowing at the rate of an inch or two an hour.”
ABC News Radio and The Associated Press contributed to this report
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SO pizza delivery drivers have no choice but 600 flights were cancelled? that’s a little dramatic. Seriously, why are all those people outside? It’s like they had no idea the snow was coming….
Posted by: Cathy | February 4, 2012, 10:03 am 10:03 am
Why isn’t ABC running the story about the record cold in Europe? Hundreds of people have died – a huge story, but ABC won’t give any attention.
You don’t suppose it has anything to do with the fact that the liberals that have hijacked ABC are mostly a bunch of Global Warming scam artists, do you?
Posted by: meab | February 4, 2012, 12:40 pm 12:40 pm
The ski resorts didn’t really get anything from this storm. It was pretty much along the Front Range and Eastern Plains. I have a feeling the pizza delivery driver was somewhere in the metro area, the roads weren’t that bad. However, east of Denver roads were closed. This story is very misleading.
Posted by: Rachel | February 4, 2012, 1:14 pm 1:14 pm
Yes, Meab, like the National Academy of Sciences, the American Meteorological Society, The American Geophysical Union, and all those other “Global Warming scam artists”.
Posted by: WilliamDawesJr. | February 4, 2012, 4:17 pm 4:17 pm
Meab: Seriously? You call the tens of thousands of members of every scientific organization in the United States, and every National Academy of Scientists in the developed world “scam artists”? (Yes, the ALL say that Global Warming is real, man-made, and a threat to our continued existence.) Instead you take as gospel the rantings of one person with NO education in field and NO qualifications other than that he is a radio weather announcer. He lied about being “AMS Certified” which he is not. He was a minor author on a paper which refutes his own claims, thus calling himself a liar. And you seriously expect people to believe that you are a dispassionate observer and that Watts is somehow right when every other scientist on the planet is wrong? Geez, even noted climate sceptic Dr. Richard Muller has finally come around after examining 1,600,000,000 bits of data in an attempt to prove that the researchers at East Anglia University were actually ‘guilty’ of something issued the following terse statement: “Global Warming is real”. That from a study funded by $600,000 of the Koch brothers and other deniers’ money. Sweet. But keep repeating your disproven statements if it make you feel better.
Posted by: WilliamDawesJr. | February 4, 2012, 6:13 pm 6:13 pm