OFFICIAL I70 BITCH THREAD....

**wkd-rdr** · 03-10-2021, 08:51 AM

No chains, you busted bruh

**Name Redacted** · 03-10-2021, 09:16 AM

Weekend storm arrival seems to line up with the Saturday am ski commute perfectly. Please baby Jeezus let the highway shut down before the blizzard and give us a locals only weekend! Hahaha

Of course, that would probably coincide with a ski area closure and stuff if history repeats itself. Either way.

**Name Redacted** · 03-10-2021, 09:20 AM

Weekend storm arrival seems to line up with the Saturday am ski commute perfectly.

**skiingislife** · 03-10-2021, 09:30 AM

Originally Posted by adrenalated

Heh. The "vaccination schedule" part is the part that the health dept might find interesting.

Why? Low-wage/uninsured ski area employees who come in contact with hundreds/thousands of out-of-staters are taking vaccines from the desk jockeys/vanlifers?

**summit** · 03-10-2021, 09:51 AM

I honestly don't think lifties should be coming before restaurant workers... unless they live in employee housing. Outdoor vs indoor...

Workplaces have been long advised to stagger staff vaccinations to avoid staffing disruptions, but sometimes it's not possible.

**grskier** · 03-10-2021, 10:03 AM

Originally Posted by Summit

I honestly don't think lifties should be coming before restaurant workers... unless they live in employee housing. Outdoor vs indoor...

Workplaces have been long advised to stagger staff vaccinations to avoid staffing disruptions, but sometimes it's not possible.

This.

Another 2 weeks and we'll have a serious dent in our numbers here, let alone in a month. Just in time for desert season lol.

**skiingislife** · 03-10-2021, 10:03 AM

Originally Posted by Summit

I honestly don't think lifties should be coming before restaurant workers... unless they live in employee housing. Outdoor vs indoor...

Loveland has an indoor restaurant/shop, and some of the lifters work second jobs at restaurants, so "two birds in the bag".

**uglymoney** · 03-10-2021, 10:04 AM

Originally Posted by Summit

I honestly don't think lifties should be coming before restaurant workers... unless they live in employee housing. Outdoor vs indoor...

Yep. Outdoor transmission is minimal. We know this now.

Being in restaurant business I find it offensive how some people think restaurant workers shouldn't be prioritized just because...they are restaurant workers. They are people who have been swimming in the tank with the covid sharks from day 1.

Also eat that shit on the sundeck. Duh.

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**summit** · 03-10-2021, 10:25 AM

Originally Posted by uglymoney

Yep. Outdoor transmission is minimal. We know this now.

Being in restaurant business I find it offensive how some people think restaurant workers shouldn't be prioritized just because...they are restaurant workers. They are people who have been swimming in the tank with the covid sharks from day 1.

Also eat that shit on the sundeck. Duh.

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With some exceptions, being outdoors adds protection equal or greater than masking, especially if there is distancing. Add masks if you can't distance, and you are still safer (protection stacks!)

What is the place with the worst ventilation and most customers are not wearing masks 30-90 minutes at a time? Restaurants!!!!!!

I always advocated that restaurant workers, including back of the house where social distancing is impossible, should come before almost any other service workers, including grocery stores. Either we care about stopping transmission ,which protects the vulnerable, or we do not.

I've never worked in a restaurant, but I do know a thing or two about epidemiology. I applied but was not selected for Colorado's GEEERC though

**uglymoney** · 03-10-2021, 10:27 AM

Fistbump.

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**skiingislife** · 03-10-2021, 10:35 AM

Originally Posted by Summit

With some exceptions, being outdoors adds protection equal or greater than masking, especially if there is distancing. Add masks if you can't distance, and you are still safer (protection stacks!)

What is the place with the worst ventilation and most customers are not wearing masks 30-90 minutes at a time? Restaurants!!!!!!

I always advocated that restaurant workers, including back of the house where social distancing is impossible, should come before almost any other service workers, including grocery stores. Either we care about stopping transmission ,which protects the vulnerable, or we do not.

Serve that shit outside, duh.

Just to be clear the restaurant workers at the ski area were vaccinated too. Is that not a real restaurant? Should one of the largest employers in the county opt out of offering vaccines to all of it's employees at once when it gets the chance because the Denver/Summit folk will get their panties in a bunch?

Carry on. I'll be back tonight after a few drinks to chime back in. It snowed and I'm going skiing. Hopefully there's no traffic on I70.

**doebedoe** · 03-10-2021, 10:47 AM

^^ This. Loveland is Clear Creek Skiing Corporation. When you manage vaccine rollouts on the county level (yay thanks local control state!) you're gonna have differences in vaccine opportunity that don't make epidemiological sense due to availability.

**Name Redacted** · 03-10-2021, 10:52 AM

Originally Posted by Summit

With some exceptions, being outdoors adds protection equal or greater than masking, especially if there is distancing. Add masks if you can't distance, and you are still safer (protection stacks!)

What is the place with the worst ventilation and most customers are not wearing masks 30-90 minutes at a time? Restaurants!!!!!!

I always advocated that restaurant workers, including back of the house where social distancing is impossible, should come before almost any other service workers, including grocery stores. Either we care about stopping transmission ,which protects the vulnerable, or we do not.

I've never worked in a restaurant, but I do know a thing or two about epidemiology. I applied but was not selected for Colorado's GEEERC though

Agreed. I’ve had two appointments in the last week but canceled them when I realized they were for grocery store employees only and not the rest of the 1B folks. I’m 1b4. Annoying, but I’ll wait my turn.

And you think traffic has been bad in Summit now for the shots at the bus barn? Wait till restaurant workers are in the mix. That’s like 90% of the people in this county. Hope they figure that out soon or there’s gonna be a shitshow of I70 proportions.

**adrenalated** · 03-10-2021, 11:26 AM

Back to I-70: CDOT is pretty much straight up saying "yeah we're going to close the highway this weekend."

Originally Posted by CDOT

Travelers should plan to get to their destination Friday, and be prepared to stay through Monday. Road closures are highly likely.

Bet it's gonna be a good weekend to be a local!

**skiracer88_00** · 03-10-2021, 11:55 AM

Originally Posted by adrenalated

Back to I-70: CDOT is pretty much straight up saying "yeah we're going to close the highway this weekend."

Bet it's gonna be a good weekend to be a local!

this also means Loveland will likely not open since most of their employees come from CCC

**adrenalated** · 03-10-2021, 12:00 PM

Originally Posted by skiracer88_00

this also means Loveland will likely not open since most of their employees come from CCC

I was thinking it could be like the country club day in, what was that, 09 or so? When only chair 1 opened and the only skiers/staff there were the people that slept in Silver Plume.
I was there for that one, won't be there for this one, but hope someone gets that experience!

**concretejungle** · 03-10-2021, 12:14 PM

Originally Posted by adrenalated

I was thinking it could be like the country club day in, what was that, 09 or so? When only chair 1 opened and the only skiers/staff there were the people that slept in Silver Plume.
I was there for that one, won't be there for this one, but hope someone gets that experience!

I was there for that day. I got like first, fifth and tenth tracks under the lift.

I skied that Friday and drove to a friends house in Arvada. We woke up early and drove to the closure on Floyd Hill, got off, drove down to CCC and then back up the side road. The gate to the highway was open and we cruised up a closed highway to the gate at Georgetown. From there a cop escorted us and some other cars up to LL. The road was plowed and easy. Lift one didn’t open until an employee could get there.

**skiracer88_00** · 03-10-2021, 12:17 PM

Originally Posted by adrenalated

I was thinking it could be like the country club day in, what was that, 09 or so? When only chair 1 opened and the only skiers/staff there were the people that slept in Silver Plume.
I was there for that one, won't be there for this one, but hope someone gets that experience!

I remember when that happened! Alas, Loveland is not cool enough to do something like that anymore.

**adrenalated** · 03-10-2021, 12:19 PM

Originally Posted by concretejungle

I was there for that day. I got like first, fifth and tenth tracks under the lift.

I skied that Friday and drove to a friends house in Arvada. We woke up early and drove to the closure on Floyd Hill, got off, drove down to CCC and then back up the side road. The gate to the highway was open and we cruised up a closed highway to the gate at Georgetown. From there a cop escorted us and some other cars up to LL. The road was plowed and easy. Lift one didn’t open until an employee could get there.

I slept in on a bench in the bar at the Plume Saloon. It was very uncomfortable, very cold, I was very hungover, and the skiing was glorious.

**bendtheski** · 03-10-2021, 11:32 PM

I think this was my 2nd winter at the Sheriff’s office. I skied the Friday afternoon it came in, and it was deep! I was working overnights, and would ski a lot of afternoons before coming in.

We had to set up 3 emergency shelters IIRC, and I pulled an 18-hr shift, but the worst part was having to dig my car into the driveway at 8 or 9 in the morning.

Good to know some people who got the goods Saturday. I slept.

One of our deputies got LEO of the year for buying a crap-ton of donuts out of pocket and bringing them to the shelters when everything else fell through, and I got to hear the (former) Sheriff tell a caller to shut up. Guy kept talking over him, and it finally went something like “if you would just shut up for a second, I’ll tell you”. Anyway, he stopped trying to help with the phones after that. One of the stand-out moments in my career to this point. We can talk all day about whose fault that cluster was, but it’s probably not the guy answering phones; there’s a good chance they’ve been getting their ass kicked over a situation they have limited power to change.

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