Re: US-CO-Boulder-Electronic Data Systems(EDS)-ORACLE DBA[no travel req.]-bdm_at_indra.com

Previously Steve Carnes [carnes_at_sweng.stortek.com] wrote this:
:> farnham_at_spot.Colorado.EDU (Jenny Farnham) writes:
:> > I live in Boulder, Colorado (at the foot of the Rockies).
:> > I have lived here 5 years. I used to live in Fairfax, VA.
:> > I have never experienced a 3 ft blizzard yet. The winds... hmmm,
:> > 125 mph? That would be a tornado. We have had a 60mph wind once...
:> > but nothing like you describe
 

:> Just wait a couple years, Jenny, and you'll be thinking 60mph is a
:> breeze. We're way overdue for a good 3-day whoop! The actual record,
:> if memory serves, was 134 mph, set on the edge of Davidson Mesa, above
:> Marshall. The 134 was what the anemometer was pegged at when the
:> wreckage was retrieved. Seriously.
 

:> In terms of snow, ask anybody who's lived here awhile about the
:> infamous Christmas blizzard of (I think) 1983, and the killer
:> Thanksgiving blizzard in the mid-70's. Marshall Road was a set of ski
:> tracks for 3 days...

christmas blizzard of 1982, thanksgiving blizzard of 1977 [i had mmy drivers license, barely]... ahhhh, the "good ole days" ... it was storms like that that kept the population down!! ;-) [joke for the humor impaired!!]

mark

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