Denver Storms and Fallen Trees

One day I was looking at a Colorado travel magazine and couldn't figure out why it showed June and July as the wettest months out of the year. Now I know. Apparently Denver has a monsoon season, just in case you were wondering. Recently we have had some of the biggest storms Denver has seen in a while. About 2 weeks ago, the old weather reporting location (Stapleton Airport) had record rainfall (3"+) while the new reporting location (DIA) only had slightly more than an inch. That was just in one night.

Last night we had awesome lightning. Check it out for yourself.

Here are images take by the Denver Post

Today at playgroup, I found out the true awesomeness of this storm which we didn't hear. If you noticed, there was very little thunder in the video. Apparently sound doesn't travel through 3 townhouses, around corners, has nothing to bounce back to us at our west facing window, or was just too far away. The women told me the thunder was constant and loud about 1-5 miles to the east and close enough that the delay was barely 1 second. On one hand, I love thunder and would have liked to have heard that. On the other hand, Ellie is terrified of thunder and lightning and it would have kept her up late.

I think she is afraid because of me though. During a daytime storm a few days ago, we were standing on our patio and a bolt of lightning basically hit the field there because the crack that followed caused me to jump and rip my child off the patio into the house.

This has also helped explain how Russ's property in Granby now looks like this.


Looking towards the play area from the front porch swing.

The road leading to the camp area.

About where our tent was set up

 

About where Rob and Kris's tent was set

About where Chad and Christy's tent was set

 

And Steve and Connie's truck and camper.

It's amazing what can happen in one night when Mother Nature is on a role. Just glad we were able to see the place before this all happened and that we weren't there when it did either.