After getting hit with a 3rd blizzard-like storm in 3 weeks (nearly unheard of), helicopters are being used to spot survivors and livestock in the Denver / central Colorado region. Meantime this morning a giant avalanche has buried several cars off a mountain highway.
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A huge avalanche buried several cars and sent others over the edge Saturday on U.S. 40 near 11,307-foot-high Berthoud Pass, Colorado highway officials said.
"Our crews said it was the largest they have ever seen. It took three paths," said Stacey Stegman, spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Transportation.
Crews had rescued at least six people at the site some 60 miles west of Denver, she said. Rescuers were probing the area for other survivors. She said some cars were buried by the snow in an area called Stanley near Berthoud Falls between 10:00 and 10:30 a.m.
Berthoud Pass is the main route to Winter Park, one of Colorado's largest ski areas.
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In the upper midwest, we've seen a straight month of 40-50 degree daytime temperatures since early December. After living here for over 20 years, I can tell you we've never seen anything like it. A few days here, a week there... sure it's happened. But never this long and never this warm. Anyone who thinks every bizarre weather phenomenon we've been witnessing over the last couple years, is all coincidence / random chance, you need to pull your head out. Things are slowly but surely changing in very pronounced ways and it ain't the cycle of mother earth that's driving it.
FUBAR. I can't even go skating in January for Christ's sake!