You can relive 95% of our experience here by doing the following:

Cook up about 10 tons of mashed potatos. Chill them, then dump them in a 4 foot thick layer over your car, driveway and sidewalk. Shovel until all such paths are clear and the car is cleaned off <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" /> .

Living in Denver you expect occasional heavy snows and even a blizzard every other year or so, but this was TOO MUCH.

I generally plan about 20 minutes of shoveling after a snow storm to clear a path down the sidewalks. I don't shovel the driveway at all, as if it's only a few inches the car can clear it and the sun will melt it in a week or so.

This time I spent hours shoveling, and HAD to do my driveway because even the Passport couldn't get down it. Admittedly I just shoveled the top couple of feet off the driveway and drove over the rest, but tomorrow I'm going to have to shovel some more to get one of the cars out.

While some aspects of a major storm like this are kind of fun (well ... quite a few, actually), once every few years is often enough.

And the kicker is ... there's a HUGE amount of moisture in this heavy snow, but most of it is TOO LOW in altitude to get into our reservoirs (most of the largest of which are fairly high in the mountains). So it probably won't help stave off water rationing next Spring.