Truly massive amounts of snow in Colorado

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Excerpts:

Streets have turned into tunnels rimmed by claustrophobic white walls, and buried cars have become de facto sledding hills.

Anybody in the market for a snow blower can forget it. They're sold out for the season.
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There has been so much snow that the Telluride school district recently did something it hasn't done for at least 15 years: It closed for a snow day. It's more accurate to call it a "powder day," locals say, because everybody went skiing.

At the Wolf Creek ski area, about 60 miles east of Durango, the summit base depth is a stunning 199 inches. Snowfall so far this year: 434 inches.
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"I've never seen a storm like this," said Linda Mannix, who has lived in the Durango area for 32 years. She spent Thursday shoveling the snow off her roof, a precaution against collapses and mini-avalanches.

"What about global warming? They had forecast it was going to be a dry year and then a little snow and then, whammo! We knew it was coming," she said.
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"Normally, we have a sane amount of snow," said Andy White, assistant director at the Durango Public Library. He puts this in context: From his window, he can just barely see the top of an SUV parked in the lot.

Remember those dark days when this appeared in the Washington Post?

The persistent and dramatic decline in the snowpack of the mountains of the West is caused primarily by human-induced global warming and not the result of natural variability of weather patterns in the region, researchers reported today.

That was nine days ago.