70's, shorts and flip flops today, tomorrow snow and gollashes in forecast

Most of the southern folks I know just don't get it (except you Amy!) but part of what we love about living here in the Denver area is the excitement of having the Rocky Mountain weather makers right in your backyard. It makes for interesting swings and never a weather dull moment.

Today I mowed my lawn in flip flops and shorts and tomorrow they say there's snow on the way (backed up by the radar image to the left). Mountains are supposed to get a foot of snow and they are saying like 3" here! Yay! in May no less!

Some excitement at the end our street yesterday

So, yesterday Julie and I were out shooting some test footage for a video service we are attempting to get set up to work freelance for when puffs of smoke appeared over our shoulders toward the highway. After finishing up some of the video I grabbed the camera, jumped the fence and climbed the sound barrier mound between our neighborhood and the highway to see a grass fire. Particularly interesting was how fast the fire crew got there and the fact that grass fires were a major problem down south of Denver yesterday. In fact, it seems a few people were killed in other grass fires in CO yesterday. Here's some of the raw footage I shot while observing the effort to squash the flames.

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