Classic Denver “fake out” rain forecast!

Next time, you should be there!

This seems insane for a 750 sq ft apartment. Only keep the AC to around 70-72 degrees.

My wife and I have lived a few different places: SF, NY, Tampa, St. Pete, Charleston, Albuquerque, Portland, and Denver is by far our favorite.

Denver is our forever home. I love this city and can’t wait to continue to watch - and participate in - its development and growth.

A video circulating on social media this week shows a woman being removed from a Southwest Airlines jetway at Denver International Airport by federal agents, then led out a door onto the tarmac as onlookers shout, “Help us! ICE is here!”

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Chantal Alejandra Morales Rojas, who is from Ecuador, on Monday, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed to The Denver Post. The agency said she entered the U.S. on Oct. 20, 2024, and overstayed her visa, which allowed her to remain in the country until Jan. 4, 2025.

She remains in ICE custody “pending removal proceedings,” an unidentified DHS spokesperson said in an email to The Post on Wednesday.

A GoFundMe created for Rojas to pay for her legal fees said she lives in Oakland, California, and has a work permit and pending asylum case. The crowdfunding campaign had raised more than $86,000 by Wednesday morning.
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Other people waiting at the Southwest gate begin crowding around, pulling out their phones and filming and looking out the windows onto the tarmac.

The federal agent says, “We’re being very nice. We’re being very respectful.”

The person recording the video says: “(Expletive) you. This is (expletive) evil. You should be ashamed of yourself. Who gives a (expletive) if you’re being polite? (Expletive) you.”

A Southwest gate agent steps in and tells the person filming, “If you are on this flight and you speak to them like that, you will not board this flight.”

Let's go boys!! We need to get a girls section going next time. I'll be the first volunteer!

Brewability on South Broadway has spent 10 years building an inclusive community — now the beloved Denver restaurant is fighting to keep its doors open.

Last winter’s extreme snow drought was a sign of the West’s future, Colorado study finds

www.denverpost.com

Extreme snow droughts like the one that plagued the West last winter will become more frequent — and eventually the norm — across much of the region as climate change fuels warmer temperatures, according to a new study led by a Colorado School of Mines professor.

Climate change made the season’s low snowfall four times more likely to occur than during the preindustrial period from 1850 to 1900, says the study, published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The size of the impact surprised the study’s lead author, Adrienne Marshall, who is a computational hydrologist and assistant professor of geology and geological engineering at the School of Mines. She expected an increase in likelihood of just 20% or 30% due to climate change — not the many times over that she found.

“It was a gut punch in a way that (other findings) haven’t been,” she said. “I’m looking at and living through the snow conditions we have right now, and I don’t like it. It makes them real in a way that feels new, even for someone that has been working in this field for a while.”

The lack of snow has translated this summer to extreme drought, parched rivers and reservoirs, water use restrictions and increased wildfire risk across Colorado and the region.

Similarly dry winters will become more common across the West if greenhouse gas emissions are not curbed and climate change continues to intensify. Through the end of the decade, the chance of such a winter will hover around 10%, according to the study.

By the 2050s, the risk will rise to 32%, and then to 87% by the 2090s.

That means that a snow drought like the one this winter will become the norm -- predicted to happen almost every nine years out of 10 -- not the exception.

In the Upper Colorado River Basin, which encompasses nearly all of western Colorado, climate change made this winter's drought 14 times more likely to happen than during the preindustrial era, the study says.

There's a slice of less-bad news for those who live in the Upper Colorado River Basin, however.

This winter was so extraordinarily dry that similar winters will remain rare through the end of the century. By the 2090s, the chances of such a snow drought will rise to only 17%, though less-severe snow droughts will still become more common in the decades to come.

The study is one of the first to quantify how the warming climate changes the likelihood of severe snow droughts. But her research adds to studies that have predicted significant impacts on snowfall and snowsports in the coming decades, as The Denver Post explored in its "Endangered Snowpack" project in February.

Marshall was already considering how to apply something called "attribution science" -- the process of determining how much of a role climate change plays in a phenomenon -- when the winter's lack of snow became noticeable.

"It provided a great and terrible opportunity to use a case study to further the attribution science we were thinking of," Marshall said.

The findings are grim, Marshall said, but she hopes they will help people better understand what the future will look like and compel them to reduce emissions and slow the pace of climate change.

"I hope they give us clarity on where we are now and what climate change looks like so far," she said. "Second, I hope they help us to adapt."

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Fernando Sebastian Chavez has been arrested for the murder of James Ruiz. ⚖️

If you have any information that you believe may help the case, please contact Metro Denver Crime Stoppers.

📞 720-913-STOP (7867)

💻 Submit an anonymous tip:

https://www.metrodenvercrimestoppers.com/report-a-crime

JUSTICE FOR JAMES RUIZ! 🕊️🤍

I hope this is allowed here... I am sponsoring a blood drive for the American Red Cross tomorrow at the Denver Police District 5 substation, at 12025 E 45th Ave, just off Peoria and 45th. Due to a sharp drop in donations over the last month, there is a critical shortage of all types. Donors with O blood will get an additional $20 gift card, and everyone will get a $15 Fandango gift card. Eligibility has expanded for things like LGBTQ+ donors, tattoos, piercings, etc. Check your eligibility here: https://www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/how-to-donate/eligibility-requirements.html

Make an appointment here:

https://www.redcrossblood.org/give.html/drive-results?zipSponsor=denverdispatch

This isn't my cat, but I saw this flyer during my evening walk today at E Mexico Ave and S Jasmine St. There is an address on it near S Jasmine Way just north of E Florida Ave and south of E Minnesota Dr.

I didn't see any existing post associated with this kitty, so I hope it's okay to post it here to get more reach. I didn't see that many flyers nearby but really hope they find their kitty during this awful heatwave and bad air quality.

I cropped the address and phone number out for privacy, but can provide it to anyone who has a lead. I just wasn't sure of the subreddit policies on personal info.

Copied from someone who posted in my hometown’s sub - they were having a lot fun with it over there; figured Denver would get creative.

I just got this months energy bill for my 1 bedroom 700 sq foot apartment where I have lived for 4 years. Xcel is saying I used 1400 kWh of electricity and just sent a $300 bill my way. For context my most expensive month up until this point was $130 last year during a heatwave where I ran AC all day and only used 700 kWh. Has anyone had luck disputing a bill with Xcel I find it hard to believe that with no changes on my end my bill quadrupled over last month and my energy usage is double any previous month in the four years I’ve lived here.

Edit: ignore the flair, it was the only way I could convince the auto mod to let me post

Bye Bye, Bar Bar. They tore the ol' girl down yesterday, never recovered from the fire. Can't say I'll miss it but it sure was a place.

Hello! This post is hard for me to write, so apologies in advance if I don't explain something correctly, etc.

I am looking for recommendations on the very best CPTSD / complex trauma clinicians/psychologists/counselors/or at this point even a shaman will do.

I am a high functioning individual (high up in my career, great salary, have my master's degree) but I am riddled with profound mental health issues. It affects all of my relationships, constantly feel on edge, and my nervous system is hijacked by the smallest of conflicts - leaving me feeling shame and worthlessness for days, etc etc.

I have had talk therapy on and off for 20 years, sometimes spanning multiple years with the same therapist. It's obviously not working. EMDR a few months completely flooded me and basically I ghosted that last therapist because, even though I said multiple times I was feeling completely destabilized, the treatment never changed and I ended up again using weed to numb myself (clean now for 10 days).

The biggest issue, IMO, is that my trauma doesn't span 1 or 2 traumatic events. Since I have memory, I have been severely abused and neglected by my parents and many others (think the types of crimes people end up 20 years in prison for - example: I have a burn mark from having a cigarette put out on me when I was 2 years old). I'd say, total, I was abused from 0 to around 24 years old (I was used to the abuse, so ended up in more abusive relationships as I thought it was normal). I keep myself at night wondering whats wrong with me. Am I also maybe autistic? Am I deficient? Is my brain wrong? Can it heal?

So, I think what I need is 1) to formally get diagnosed with everything I may be suffering from (ptsd was formally diagnosed during an inpatient stint, but that's it) and then 2) someone that actually can guide me into the life I so desperately want (not someone that just listens to me and validates me - I know everything that happened was super fucked, but the question is: how can I NOW, in the present, become fully functioning?)

Lastly: A bit pathetic, maybe, I know... but is there somewhere I can go where an older woman will act a bit like a mom? Sometimes all I wish is to have a mom-like figure give me a hug, let me cry, and tell me everything will be ok. I never had that, and crave it so very much...

It’s a nightmare. Save your sanity and choose a different route.

Signed a lease in May in S. Denver and so far this house
1.) said there was cooling in the listing - there’s not, so we got AC units
2.) gas leak from the water heater that emergency Xcel operators had to come fix
3.) now half of the house has no power in the worst heat wave Denver has seen in years and 3 times I have called the property management company and Xcel and no one is going to be here until tomorrow. Roommate has to stay an hour away and I have to stay with a friend because the house’s internal temp is almost 90 degrees. We both work from home as well.

My roommate just moved in and has had to deal with all of this with me - I feel pretty screwed here especially for $2700 a month and all of these problems. What should I do?