Expedition 5280: You Found Us!

Monday, July 30, 2007

You Found Us!

Glad you decided to check in our our Colorado adventure! If you're wondering, 5280 is a big deal here in Denver. 5280 feet = 1 mile and this is the "Mile High" city. Hence, our "expedition" is at "5280". 5280 is almost as big as Elway around here.

We're living in Glendale, CO which, if you look up our area code, comes up as Denver. We're in the heart of most everything. For example, we went to a Rockies game and it took us 20 minutes to get home! Pleasanton style shopping coupled with Santa Barbara boutique is a 7 minute drive and the trail system through the city is only a couple blocks away. The Rockies are to the west of us and bring daily delight along with the most righteous thundershowers I've ever experienced! Nothing is ever perfect so I'm curious what will burst the bubble first?

4 comments:

Tamara Walton said...: Your town sounds alot like Boise - where your whole existence is within a 10 mile radius.
Unlike my experience I had yesterday....I spent over 3 hours trying to find a parking spot at 3 different beaches, only to count my losses & return home. My poor nieces never got t!o use their new boogie boards. It was dreadful~; July 30, 2007 at 11:23 PM
Julie Holly said...: You're totally right comparing our area to Boise! What a bummer about the beach! Three hours in the car with little ones excited about the beach. Disapointing for all. Were you able to salvage the day?; July 31, 2007 at 8:23 PM
Tamara Walton said...: yup - came home & went swimming. luckily the girls went the following day with veronica & they "surfed"!; August 1, 2007 at 3:40 PM
pam said...: hi
yes it looks beautiful there. Buddy looks very happy but then buddy is happy any where Steve is. I miss you guys horribly. I am sending lots of hugs your way. Can you feel them?
Love you
Mom(pam); August 5, 2007 at 4:15 PM

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A Recent Rare Phenomenon

Last night we were at a local coffee shop with some friends. While sitting by the widow, we noticed that it had unexpectedly begun snowing. A few minutes later we all looked up to notice bright flashes, similar to that from a camera flash reflecting in the window. Since you never see lightning (or hear thunder) during a snow storm we all looked around for the abnoxiously bright flash from someones camera. It was nowhere to be found. Next thing we hear the boom of thunder and immediately car alarms start sounding. At this point we all look outside to see what looks like hail....but its not. It is simply pea sized snowballs that are falling like rocks from the sky. Needless to say, this was the first time any of us had experienced anything like this. The snowballs were not hard but soft...just like snow. The lightning and thunder continued for a while longer, as most everyone who was in the coffee shop either was glued to the windows or went outside for closer inspection. Bethany, who was sitting with our group, said that she had heard something like this happening before and said it was called a "thundersnow storm". Well, it is a true and rare event that is even more rare in a "land locked" state like Colorado. Here is the local newspaper headline from the Rocky Mountain News: "We were enjoying the lights, sights and sounds of a thundersnow that rolled through downtown around 9:30 p.m. And, we didn't make up that word thundersnow, either. It's a real, but rare phenomenon (and very rare in landlocked Colorado), according to a quickie Google search. In the simplest of terms, cold air meets warm air. As those two air masses interact, it causes friction, or a convection (up- and-down movement of air), which if violent enough, can cause lightning and thunder".

If you are still interested, check out the Wikipedia article for it : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundersnow