Let It Snow, and Clear it Out!

On Saturday, an avalanche in Colorado knocked two cars off a mountain pass near a popular ski resort. Thirty workers from the ski resort went on to dig eight people out from being trapped inside the cars. “Our crews said it was the largest they have ever seen. It took three paths," Stacey Stegman of the transportation department said of the massive slide on U.S. 40 near 11,307-foot Berthoud Pass, about 50 miles west of Denver on the way to Winter Park Resort. The avalanche occurred between 10 am and 10:30 am and if it had occurred any earlier, many more injuries could have been suffered by more skiers. The Winter Park Resort usually has approximately 10,000 skiers and snowboarders on a January weekend, with lifts opening at 8 am.
In 2005, another natural disaster occurred in the United States. Hurricane Katrina devastated millions of families in the Louisiana, New Orleans, and Mississippi area causing approximately the US $84 billion dollars worth of damages, the costliest Atlantic hurricane in history. Although much of the New Orleans, Louisiana, and Mississippi area is continued to be rebuilt, consequently, Winter Park will reopen next Sunday.