Grand Junction's bowl-shaped valley traps cold air and pollution during temperature inversions, sometimes making the mountains warmer than Main Street.
Seeing the images and video footage of the affected areas in Southwest Colorado, you can't help but feel for the residents and how they must have felt so helpless, having to leave everything behind to evacuate.
There's probably only a very small number of people in Colorado who haven't seen "A Christmas Story". How many, however, have seen it on the big screen with none other than Peter Billingsley himself on hand?