Cockpit Windows Crack In Winter Storm

Storm Brings 100 MPH Winds To Denver, 18 Inches Of Snow To Mountains

(CBS/AP)  Thousands of travelers heading to Colorado ski areas for the holiday weekend were stalled by giant traffic jams Saturday as highways were blocked by crews removing snow slides.

One avalanche at Berthoud Pass on Highway 40, the main road to the Winter Park ski resort, knocked a state maintenance vehicle off the road during the night, said Colorado Department of Transportation spokeswoman Stacey Stegman.

That pass was the scene of an avalanche last month that knocked two vehicles off the road and stranded several motorists. No injuries were reported because of snow slides or avalanche mitigation.

Elsewhere, avalanche crews firing explosive charges to break up potential avalanches dislodged a massive slide that buried Interstate 70, the main access from Denver and the urban Front Range corridor to many of the state's major ski resorts, including Vail and Aspen.

"We've just gotten so much snow up there in the last two days," Stegman said. "This is one of the biggest ski weekends of the year. We would love to keep the highway open. It's just so much snow."

Officials opened I-70 during the morning to let motorists already stuck in traffic jams move on. But newcomers heading west from Denver were turned back at Georgetown, 45 miles west of Denver.

The storm, which had moved out of the state Saturday, piled up as much as 18 inches of snow in the mountains, Stegman said.

In Pennsylvania, the last of hundreds of motorists stranded on a 50-mile stretch of Interstate 78 were freed Friday, but several other highways remained shut as crews struggled to clear ice and snow following a huge storm across the Midwest and Northeast.

At least 24 deaths were blamed on the storm system and accompanying cold: six in Ohio; three in Nebraska; two each in Illinois, Indiana, New York, New Jersey and Delaware; and one each in Missouri, Pennsylvania, Virginia, New Hampshire and Louisiana.

[darkfyreaol]

I blame it on factory defect.

A) As stated, the windows are reinforced and can handle winds of several hundred miles per hour.

B) They can also handle impacts, such as birds, hitting the glass at several hundred miles per hour.

C) The temperature in the upper atmosphere is notoriously low. With wind chill, I suppose it could get to around -100. I don't think it's the temperature change either, or the air pressure.

Or maybe it's a combination of a factory defect, as well as A and C. Murphy's law, eh.

[flolake]

"Well if obama is elected president all these problems would stop esp all those unwanted babys
and im sure we wouldnt have any more race discrimination and everybody would have equal oppertunity employment. if hillary is elected im sure the birth rate in america would plummet due
to free abortions for all or should i say sin for all thats all we need is for some bible hatin
democrat to get elected and of course if we get another bush we could just kiss ourselves goodbye
i dont know how this relates to a crack windshield
on an airplane but im sure some neocon will figure it out for me. heee heee heee"
Posted by dmorg4 at 12:11 PM : Feb 18, 2007
dmorg4: Are you off of your meds? Go sell crazy somewhere else, Pootie.

[fizzal-2009]

Sounds like they are trying to get part of the plane paid for by the insurance company, instead of raiseing rates?

[mo005]

wow, you people are some bord a-- mofos arent you ha ha ha. Like a bunch of little kids.

[dmorg4]

Well if obama is elected president all these problems would stop esp all those unwanted babys
and im sure we wouldnt have any more race discrimination and everybody would have equal oppertunity employment. if hillary is elected im sure the birth rate in america would plummet due
to free abortions for all or should i say sin for all thats all we need is for some bible hatin
democrat to get elected and of course if we get another bush we could just kiss ourselves goodbye
i dont know how this relates to a crack windshield
on an airplane but im sure some neocon will figure it out for me. heee heee heee

"But then again all you do for a living is sit in your underpants and blog these groups and wait for your social security check to come in the mail."
Posted by Plowhandle

Hey Plowhandle, I've been looking for you. You never answered my reply to you last time.
I just have one question for you though.

What do rabid, leftist democrats like you wear when YOU sit around and blog?
I would have to guess it's gotta be PANTIES for you.

[erichsh]

That's it! middleman and darkmeat hit the nail on the head. Gotta be Bush's fault - and all those blasted evildoer neocons. Or maybe it is global warming after all. Oh well, Obama can make it all better.

[middleman8]

One of Suddams WMD's I'll bet anything on it.

Tell Bush he has lost,give up the "Surge".

[hawksprings]

I can't believe the Global Warming Sheep haven't jumped on this as another example of human caused global warming! Where are you guys?

[jerrystjo]

Should not be any mystery about the cause of the broken airline windhields in Denver.... tis the ghosts of the Aprahoe and Cheyenne warriors who continue to roam the plains east of Denver. While the lance does not penetrate a modern windshield, the impact will crack the reinforced glass. As the warriors themselves, the lance can not be seen by mortals. Bless those brave pilots who venture into the unseen invisible lands of the Ancient Ones.

[bildooreilly]

Translation: Mail service will be slow this week.

[bobacorn]

Bike helmets wouldn't be a bad idea either.

[elgraz]

Maybe all the passengers on a plane and others should wear goggles ?

[elgraz]

They may have mixed a pig with the molten glass.

[elgraz]

The Chinese strike again.

[dmorg4]

it could also be sudden temperature changes

[dmorg4]

Im sure it had to be glass from china
they sold them fake parts again

[hawksprings]

No, it's Global Warming.

[thgdriver]

It's winter, it,s cold, It's snowing. duh, isn't that to be expected??

[hawksprings]

It's gotta be Global Warming...