Dani Whitaker is a Streaming Producer for KOAA News5 in Colorado Springs.
26 years ago, the blizzard of 1997 took the lives of seven people in Southern Colorado. Thousands were stranded and power outages spread across the state.
The blizzard— which the National Weather Service has described as rare for that time of year— started on the evening of October 24. After that initial cold front, a trailing cold front got stuck around the mountain's edge. Then, a second storm formed near the Four Corners area. The two storms created a convergence that formed heavy, prolonged upslope snow, wind and cold temperatures.
A post-storm report from the National Weather Service in Pueblo said that the snowfall was so hard to measure accurately because 55 mph wind gusts caused the snow to fly up to 10-15 feet in height, causing all of Southern Colorado to shut down for up to a week.
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