That sounds like a description of an October 2005 snowstorm in North Dakota. Note the last two paragraphs. “48 degrees north latitude” runs through North Dakota, not Colorado. And Denver routinely sees significant heavy snowstorms in October and March; mid-December is somewhat late.
IMHO, defenders and promoters of a welfare state continuously need “victims” in order to sustain themselves and their desire to “tax the wealthy”.
The approximately 200,000 “former NO residents” who haven’t returned from Katrina have voted by their absence. Of course the welfare state supporters need to highlight this and propogandize this fact regardless that many of these folks realize living 9 ft. below sea level is foolishness and depending on the gov’t is a bigger disaster than the actual hurricane itself.