National weather service.
I understand its cumulative, it just seems way high to me. I guess the reason I find that figure so odd, is that if you look at snow falls since I've been here (2003) there has never been a bigger snowfall year than 34". (07-08) Most winters I've been here the piles of snow left by the plows on the airport ramp don't even make it to 42", and they last all winter.
How about the 84" we got here in MD last year. I'm actually hoping for another bad winter because I live in the city and can walk everywhere(bars) in a storm. During two consecutive storms we had last year one of my roommates didn't go to work for 34 straight days
Then answer: It used to snow on the Front Range.
Congratulations Springs residents! We might not have bus service, or water and pick up the trash in city parks, City councilmen are misleading voters and the streets aren't plowed, but between this guy, Dobson, and Doug Bruce, we've got the market in batsh*t crazy absolutely fvcking cornered! Take that hippies!“UFO Phil” Hill gets abducted six times a week.
Even aliens, it seems, need a day off.
“They’re out there hovering around. They talk to me but they are afraid of scaring people,” explained the wiry 39-year-old, who stopped by The Gazette’s offices this week, clad in a blue and yellow jumpsuit, with a box of alien Fruit Roll-Ups in hand and a video cameraman in tow.
“Imagine if an alien being walked in here. You would say, ‘What is that thing doing here?’ When I walk in here, I’m just a regular guy.”
Of course, he’s not.
Hill — if that is his real name — is the sort of pseudo-celebrity that is a product of the Internet Age. He doesn’t have a television show or film career, but 421,000 people have watched his low-budget movie, “UFO Phil: The Movie,” on YouTube. He doesn’t have a major-label record contract, but his songs about aliens have been played on national radio.
And he claims to have recently moved to Colorado Springs from Spokane, Wash., with the express goal of building an alien-designed, pyramid-shaped power plant atop Pikes Peak.
“The good thing about Pikes Peak is it’s double the altitude of Mt. Spokane, so I can get closer to the aliens,” said Hill.
Of course, the Summit House would have to be demolished.
Brimming with nervous energy, UFO Phil is a helium-voiced obsessive and struggling musician caught in a war between “good aliens” who want to help humanity and “bad aliens” who want to take over the planet. The aliens have put chips in his head and taught him how to replicate the ancient Egyptian pyramids, which were alien fuel depots ... or something.
The aliens, by the way, love Kix cereal.
Of course, the aliens won’t let him take their pictures.
His movie, an often-funny mockumentary that follows the exploits of UFO Phil as he bewilders store clerks and insurance agents with stories of aliens, came out in 2009. His music has been on the “Dr. Demento” radio show and he appears regularly on national radio show “Coast to Coast AM with George Noory,” warning of the impending alien attack. He did a television segment with Tom Green.
During his stop on a round of area media interviews to drum up interest in his pyramid scheme, he never broke character, and insisted his visit was not a publicity stunt, despite the presence of his cameraman.
Of course, he does sell T-shirts, coffee mugs, bumper stickers. And his songs are available for purchase on iTunes.
“All that stuff is really to get the word out. This is not about making a profit. This is about giving free energy.”
By “free energy,” UFO Phil means power that will be generated by the 480-foot-tall pyramid-shaped power plant on Pikes Peak. It will provide a landing pad for alien aircraft and create local jobs.
Of course, he conceded, “I can’t really pay them a lot.”
So, would this be built by slave labor like the original pyramids?
He’s hoping to call them “volunteers.”
“I’m going to do what I can do to at least feed them.”
For the record, despite Hill’s claims to have peppered city officials and the U.S. Forest Service with phone calls about getting approval, officials report that none has been received.
“We certainly have never received a proposal, and it’s highly unlikely that anything like a pyramid would be built on top of Pikes Peak,” said Pike National Forest spokeswoman Barb Timock. Perhaps, she suggested, The Gazette could do a story on the British film crew planning to search the forest for Bigfoot?
Mayor Lionel Rivera’s office said it has never received any call, despite a news release issued Monday by Hill claiming “the mayor of nearby Colorado Springs won’t return his calls.”
Perhaps sensing the unrelenting skepticism of his interviewer, Hill grew tight-lipped toward the end of the meeting.
“I think I’ve already told you too much,” he said.
So, can Colorado Springs and this interviewer look forward to being featured in a UFO Phil sequel, or is he, as the narrator says in the first movie, “completely insane”?
The truth is out there.
http://www.gazette.com/articles/moves-111100-ufo-peak.html
You must be so proud.Meanwhile, in Colorado Springs:
Congratulations Springs residents! We might not have bus service, or water and pick up the trash in city parks, City councilmen are misleading voters and the streets aren't plowed, but between this guy, Dobson, and Doug Bruce, we've got the market in batsh*t crazy absolutely fvcking cornered! Take that hippies!
This was one the front page of the local rag this morning.
Of course not. But maybe a couple more homes would be standing ya know?
I heard a PBS special on this exact issue. The mowers were getting good money, pensions, etc. Something in the area of $30-40K. In order to save money, they fired everyone, sold the machines/trucks and outsourced... and many of the same people ended up doing the same job, on the same equipment, but under a new company, for less pay. 2 years on (i believe) the city couldn't say if it saved money by outsourcing the job. IIRC the price was something like $2million/year (!)
There was an "opinion" pieces in the local rag a couple days back (even before sh*t hit the fan on tuesday) about how the Fed's were taking way too long to come down and assist. All I could do was
butterfly...flapping wings....taiwan.....hurricane...alabama...nova scotia. Meh.....
Well slap my ass and call me Sally! Maybe next year we can even make the extra step towards watering and maininting the parks!
this ain't berkeley, hippie
Our weed is legal!
isn't kevorkian dead?
I think there is an argument to be made that the whole country is moving towards feudalism. Or at least some form of Corporate Kleptocracy.
Frazier Forman Peters: Pour Yourself a House
Serious question: Does Schadenfreude require that those who are screwing themselves be smart enough to realize they are screwing themselves?
they need the Clive Bundy PR makeover
Heh.
ESPECIALLY friendly to small businesses.
We've got James Dobson. He's published more books full of stupid sh1t than Cliven Bundy has even read.
I bet that changes when the two shops in Manitou open up and start dragging in fistfuls of cash. Bet they won't have any potholes come next winter.
