By Daniel Smith No matter where you’ve lived, we’ve all heard the “big snowstorm” stories. Often it comes handed down as a verbal history, from older relatives or from boxed old photographs showing snowbanks as high as … well, you name it. “As high as second-story windows” is one claim I remember from my youth. In Colorado, we have the mountain weather to produce record-breaking snowfall quite frequently, even with the expanding drought conditions. One very noteworthy storm produced more than 75 inches of snow at Silver Lake, Colorado, April 14-15 in 1921 – the official 24-hour national snowfall record, ...
