I heard the same thing about Arizona and New Mexico - 150 miles of I-40 are
closed.

What, you wanna keep all that snow for Colorado??? We've hardly seen any
snow here in MO for several years. I hope we get a deep one!

Yes, my experience with dogs has been that they usually wait until
they are near a human before having a good shake.  I think it must
amount to a canine practical joke.

I am hoping that any snow in this area (Tennessee) holds off until
after next week.  My sister is driving from Virginia to Nashville this
Friday, and will be here for several days.  This is an 11-hour drive
under good driving conditions, and can easily take much longer under
icy or snowy conditions.

  Wow, you guys really got hit hard.  I hope you'll be safe and as
comfortable as possible.

My daughter and SIL planned to fly into Denver from here (north
Alabama) *this morning*.  All packed and ready to go.  To spend
Christmas week with her son's family who were to meet them at the
airport.  My daughter (Melanie) visited us yesterday evening to give
us the bad news that the whole trip has been cancelled.  While here,
her DIL called.  They are equally devastated, mostly because of Emma,
their little 5-year-old, who adores her grandma and was so excited to
have her come to visit.  Keri said she had been crying almost non-stop
since hearing grandma won't be there.  She is heartbroken.  So, in a
way, the Colorado storm impacts on folks far removed from Denver as
well.  

Anyway, we hope all Coloradans will come through this A-OK.

      Jeanne

I was wondering how you were. We had the most heart wrenching posts from
someone in Colorado Springs last night on the diabetes board. A lady found
us because her friend had just brought home her cat with insulin yesterday
morning. The cat began having siezures and because of the blizzard she
couldn't get out, the friend couldn't get TO her. The vet had said nothing
to her about hypoglycemia and she had no idea of what to do and
unfortunately thought that the cat needed more insulin. We tried to help and
there was a flurry of postings, but Louis died :(   So here is this poor
woman, stuck in a blizzard with her cat dead :(  I'm still haunted terribly
by it today. It makes me SOOOOOO angry. I see people come on the board all
the time with vets that give lousy instructions on how to treat a cat with
diabetes. How can you send a cat home with insulin an no instructions about
recognizing hypoglycemia??? And yet I see it all the time "What's that?" or
on mega doses of insulin, or well, grrrr. I could go on and on, but this was
so horrible :(

I'm glad you are ok. It just sounds like it is just awful there. Here in
eastern NE all we are getting is rain and fog, but it's solid ice turning to
snow out west.

Hope you guys stay well and warm.

The wind has been blowing hard all night and yesterday's drifts of 3
feet are now mountains! There is one long wide drift behind my car
that is over 6 feet high. There are five foot drifts half burying my
juniper and cedar trees. The birdbath and fence around the rosebed are
buried. There a few five drifts covering parts of the yard fence. And
the wind and blowing snow continue.

Poor Jeff has to get to the woodshed later this morning for another
load fo firewood. He has a wheelbarrow bed he put on runners and pulls
with a rope for snowy times. But there is a wide 5 foot drift between
the house and woodshed; he is going to have an adventure going up and
down the steep slopes of it with and without firewood.

Judging by the drifts I can see from the house, I bet my 1/3 mile
driveway is buried under many drifts; particularly where the culvert
is. That area always gets big drifts. I don't think my landlord's
little tractor blade will be able to dig us out for a few days. He has
cows in pastures surrounding our place. Fortunately they have a barn
and a heated drinking fountain; but no food. Bob didn't get to them
last night and won't be able to get to them this morning. So they will
live off their fat, poor things. At least they have shelter. Many
ranchers in the area don't even bother to put up a windbreak for their
cows! Stupid #^%$&*!

Jeff tried to get Shasta to go out this morning but she wasn't budging
near the door! So, if she gets desperate, maybe she will "go" on the
porch. Can't blame her a bit. I can just throw the wet rug in the tub
to clean.

I would advise anyone in the path of the storm to make sure you have
plenty of food and pet food in case you get snowed in. The News is
calling this a "crazy, monster storm". I haven't heard of any power
outages, but you never know. We have plenty of candles and kerosene
lamps, just in case. Jeff even cooks his oatmeal on the wood stove. He
says it works better for oatmeal than the cookstove!

Shasta finally went out and came back in covered with snow. This time
Jeff got the splatters! ;-)

--
CATherine

Wow, I'm so sorry you're caught in that mess!  Hope you got plenty of
supplies at hand.  Stay warm!

Ginger-lyn

I hope things have improved by now.
Lots and lots of purrs and best wishes for everyone affected,
Polonca and Soncek