You guys sure do have bizarre weather, Phil.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 3:26 PM
Subject: Denver Weather
> Well, for those who think Denver is a quiet little cow town, a couple of
> nights ago, between about 8 and 10 PM, we had a couple of huge
> thunderstorms roll across western suburbs. It rained really hard for
> quite awhile and the wind was pretty strong, too, but in some areas, the
> hail was ping pong ball size and literally got to be two feet deep in
> places of the western suburbs. Yep, you heard me right, two feet. I was
> listening to the ham radio reports from that part of the Denver area
> because it just rained hard here where I live but about 20 minutes
> northwest of where I live, they had to call snow plows out to clear the
> highways of all the hail. My youngest sister lives 5 minutes west of my
> house and today she told me they had windows broken out, hail inside the
> house, the roof damaged, their gutters torn up, tree limbs broken off and
> laying all over the place, and her flower garden was pulverized. A
> neighbor, she said, had 17 windows broken out from the hail. On the news
> this afternoon, I heard a man say he made 14 individual trips to a dumping
> area in Lakewood, which is across the street from me, Lakewood, that is,
> to completely clean up his house and yard from the storm. That's a lot of
> mess. More than a dozen years ago, probably closer to 18 or 20 years ago,
> there was a storm like that in northwest Denver that did 611 million
> dollars worth of hail damage. Some reports claim this will be worse.
> Sandy works part time answering calls and making appointments for a mobile
> vet and one lady she talked with can't find her little dog because before
> she could let him back in the house, the storm suddenly blew up and the
> dog is now missing. Of course, that happens a lot in storms. We got 32
> inches of snow on the level one year about 5 years ago and I shoveled off
> our deck so the dogs had a path to get into the backyard. I shoveled all
> the steps off and then shoveled a wide area of free space at the base of
> the steps because the snow was too deep for all of our dogs. After
> letting them all back in one day, Sandy called me to come and find Zippy.
> He was a dachshund and not very big. He had worked his way into the
> deeper snow piles up and gotten stuck under the steps so I had to go and
> fish him out. Fortunately, this winter storm of 32 inches was in mid
> April and the next day it was 50 degrees and the snow melted by the end of
> the week.
>
> Phil.
>
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