Major snowstorm pummels parts of Colorado

(14 Mar 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Denver - 14 March 2024
1. Various of residents blowing and shoveling snow
HEADLINE: Major snowstorm pummels parts of Colorado
++PARTIALLY COVERED++
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jarmila Schultz, Denver resident:
“I love the snow. I have no complaints. I love the snow.
And the only thing I don’t like is the shoveling. But no. I love the snow.”
2. Shot of Schultz shoveling her driveway
++PARTIALLY COVERED++
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jarmila Schultz, Denver resident:
“Isn’t it beautiful? It covers up all the scummy parts, see? Now you’ve got this beautiful white snow on everything. And when I come out the door and it’s something like this, I say, God, it’s gorgeous. Just gorgeous. It really is."
4. Various of people walking in a Denver park
++PARTIALLY COVERED++
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Melanie Brooks, Denver resident:
“So I think March is when we receive the most snow, which is always unexpected because we’re waiting for spring. But then here we are. But this is great for the plants. It’s good. It’s good to have the moisture as we always say in Colorado."
6. Various snow scenes from Denver park
++COVERED++
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Melanie Brooks, Denver resident:
“I like it. If it’s going to be winter, we might as well have some snow. We haven’t had a lot this year."
8. Overhead shot of light rail train on a snowy track
ANNOTATION: The storm delayed buses and trains in Denver, forced the cancellation of hundreds of flights and closed a section of Interstate 70 in the mountains.
9. Shot of Tyler Barnes snowshoeing for the first time
++PARTIALLY COVERED++
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Tyler Barnes, Denver resident:
“It was. It’s pretty nice. It’s really easy. I've wondered about this kind of stuff for a while. I feel like you can’t go anywhere in the snow, so this is kind of a liberating idea."
11. Shot of Barnes traversing a field in snowshoes
++COVERED++
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Tyler Barnes, Denver resident:
“This is the most that we’ve got this season I think. it is a lot. It looks like eight inches, and I heard it was gonna be like 10 to 20, so we’ll see. It’s pretty intense."
13. Shot of Barnes walking through the snow.
STORYLINE:
A major storm dumped heavy snow in Colorado on Thursday – forcing flight cancellations and shutting down a highway that connects Denver to Colorado ski resorts.

The storm, which began Wednesday night, delivered the slushy, wet snow typical for March, one of the snowiest months in Denver, and wasn’t expected to wind down until Friday morning. The heaviest accumulations were expected in Colorado’s Front Range region, where the eastern plains meet the Rocky Mountains and the vast majority of the state’s population lives. Most of the snow was falling in the foothills west of Denver.

Those higher elevations had up to 3 feet (1 meter) of snow by Thursday afternoon and more than another foot was forecast by Friday morning. Denver itself got up to about 8 inches (20 centimeters) by Thursday. Up to another 10 inches was expected in the Denver area.

A stretch of Interstate 70 was closed in the Colorado mountains, following numerous reports of vehicles stranded on the highway for hours. While a boon to Colorado’s ski industry, the extreme conditions shut down several ski resorts.

More than 75,000 customers were without power across Colorado on Thursday — about 2% of electric utility customers statewide and concentrated primarily in metro Denver and along the Front Range, according to poweroutage.us.


Melanie Brooks was out walking her dogs Thursday morning in Denver.














Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
Twitter:   / ap_archive  
Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​
Instagram:   / apnews  


You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...