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Monday marks the 25th anniversary of an epic blizzard that had parts of Colorado and the Denver metro area in a deadly grip for three days in 1997.

SNOW PLOWING At 2:45 p.m. on March 15, the Denver Department of Transportation and Infrastructure confirmed that "snowplow operations will continue today into Tuesday, with drivers on duty to address both the main streets and residential streets." As of 5 a.m. today, the city's extremely useful Plowtracker page showed approximately thirty residential and so-called big plows staged throughout the city, many of them already hard at work. NEIGHBORHOOD CLEANUP Residents are required to clear snow and ice from their sidewalks by the day after snow stops falling. Complaints about homeowners who've...

On Friday, March 2, 1990, a young, brash, confident meteorologist addressed the daily news editorial meeting at KCNC-TV (then “Colorado’s News Channel,” now “CBS4”) and stated that a blizzard would strike Colorado’s Front Range on Tuesday of the next week. His declaration was met with skepticism bordering on pure disbelief. According to conventional wisdom, it was “impossible” to know Colorado’s weather more than one to two days in advance. Historically, that had been true: A young science, meteorology had been growing over the past century much like a puppy does from eight ...