
Yeah, yeah, you had an unseasonably long summer and now the cold weather is making you whine a little bit. Just be grateful you're not facing the 25-inch snowfall of Denver's Christmas Eve blizzard in 1982, which still holds the record for maximum 24-hour snowfall. Here's some visual nostalgia to give you some perspective while you're inside warming up:


According to ThorntonWeather.com:

And then of course there's Donna Wyatt's video documentation of the event, which includes some lovely imagery of life in the early '80s, as well as a news report and some odd video art:
Stay warm out there Denver -- we've merely just begun.