Denver is a great place and I don't mind having layovers there... but I've always wondered if snowstorms ever factored into their decision to make Denver a major airport.

No, only money is factored....and there is lots of it in Denver. You can't have an NFL team without an airport. :D

Y'know, you'd think the aliens that have the huge secret base under DIA and are kidnapping thousands of travelers each year could return the favor and clear the runways for us......

(On the other hand, I can see why they're kidnapping people if they're stuck at the airport and the food there is all they can get ahold of....)

I thought the Denver airport was great, but I was there right before the first storm last week. Probably not so great, filled with lots of tired, annoyed people.

Having lived through both storms AND getting grandma in and out of DIA last week, here's the deal:

The Airport was _paralized_. It wasn't a matter of who plowed what. The runways were pretty well cleared, but the areas near the concourse weren't, so there was nowhere for the planes to go, and no way to get the luggage off them.

Geographically speaking, people tend to forget that the eastern part of Colorado IS an arid, near desert, climate. Not as bad as Vegas, but things get kinda dry, and there isn't a lot of windbreaks.

Bringing me to the next: While the volume of snow was great, it was also blowing. It's not the 28-32 inches you get falling straight down, it's what happens when the wind decides where to stack it up.

http://www.millertwinracing.com/Bliz...6/DSC_0127.jpg

Our four foot fence in the back yard had, maybe, a foot of clearance, and other parts of the yard were _bare_. The picture above, the snow is above the kid's heads, but if you look across the street, there's not a whole lotta snow in the other driveway.

Wow, sniglet. Is that nasty point sticking out of the snow, part of your fence? :thepain:

It's a magnet for attracting kids.

It's actually a post for a sign. It usually sits WAY back from where anyone's eyes would be. the fence mentioned in the post is in the BACK yard.