West Buried by Snow - Over 5 Feet in Colorado

I published a blog entry last week about a town in Oregon which was buried by unusual amounts of snowfall this season. Add to that these reports from Colorado today:

- Six states have reported two feet or more of snow in the last 3 days, with over five feet at Wolf Creek, Colorado (SkiReport.com).

- Before this week's snow storm, Colorado's snowpack was already at 11-year record highs

There's a House in Here Somewhere! - Feb. 3, 2008 - Rudy Rozman clears snow from the roof of a friend's home in Crested Butte, Colo., on Sunday, Feb. 3, 2008. (AP Photo/ Nathan Bilow)

This article offers stats from the Colorado Ski Resorts:

Here is a map of current snow depth in the Rocky Mountains from NOHRSC:

Below are 72-hour snowfalls from NWS reports and SkiReport.com (SR):

Wolf Creek, CO: 62.0" (SR)
Brighton, UT: 43.0" (SR)
Mount Hood Meadows, OR: 41.0" (SR)
Placer, CA: 32.0"
Durango, CO: 29.0" (SR)
Grand Targhee, WY: 26.0" (SR)
Douglas, NV: 24.0"
Chama, NM: 23.0"
Arizona Snowbowl: 20.0"
Cassia County, ID: 22.5"
Snow Valley, CA: 20.0"
Skamania, WA: 18.0"
La Pine, OR: 16.0"

Cali has it bad too, but not that bad. So far at Mammoth Mountain, California, they have had 22 feet of snow this season, but that's a far cry from their record of over 55 feet back in 2005.

Here's a video of the dillemma at a snow-storage area in Colorado, courtesy affiliate KCNC:

There's no business like snow business. West of the continental divide in Colorado, the snow is so heavy in spots, it's hard to find a place to put it all. Frisco, Colorado's typical storage areas are filling up fast and it's hard to find some new places to store the snow. Businesses that load up snow and haul it away have been backed up for a couple of weeks. Everyday has brought more snow, and the removal crews are begging for a break piles are everywhere. Parking spaces are just spots shoveled out. And there are months of snow left to come. In the south and southwest parts of Colorado, snow levels are anywhere from 43 to 68 percent higher than average for this time of year.