Welcome to Denver, Colorado. A.K.A "The Mile-High City"

Welcome to Denver, Colorado. A.K.A "The Mile-High City"

Denver was given that name because it is exactly 5,280 feet from sea level. The city has beautiful scenery with it's lush green landscape and is definitely a place worth visiting. Denver is known to have four distinct seasons and people flock here from all over the world to see the Rocky Mountains that surround it to the east. Colorado also has a great skiing and snowboarding city by the name of Aspen that was mentioned in Dumb and Dumber, but Denver also is a very impressive geographical area.
Here are some interesting did you know facts: Denver, lays claim to the invention of the cheeseburger....Colfax Avenue in Denver is the longest continuous street in America.......The 13th step of the capital building is exactly 5,280 ft from sea level.

(http://www.50states.com/facts/colorado.htm)

Thursday, May 5, 2011

California

-Many people from California seem to be moving out and Colorado seems to be one of the locations as to where some are heading.  With the hot summer days and colder nights in Denver, Californians might feel like they are at home in another state.  The humidity in Colorado is not a huge problem, but the threat for thunderstorms and hail is real.
-Denver had a earthquake on November 7,1882 that caused little damage, but this city has very little earthquake activity unlike that of California.
-The advantages of living in Denver are good weather, the school system seems to be strong, the business market is pretty large, a wide variety of entertainment that include museums, and a low cost of living compared to California.  The disadvantages are that there are no large bodies of water besides the rivers for someone used to living in California and that the weather has extreme changes.
-Denver has the Chessman Reservoir running through it and in order to slow down the drought that has been occurring since 2002, the denver water administration has implemented the Moffat collection system project.
http://www.denverwater.org/SupplyPlanning/WaterSupplyProjects/Moffat/Video/
-Denver has been exceeding the limits of the EPA as far as parts per million of smog pollution and is continuing to rise.  The reason for this has to do with the high population and the high amounts of particle pollution coming from automobile transportation.




 References:
http://www.nrel.gov/data/pix/Jpegs/10647.jpg(pic 1)
http://www.denverwater.org/
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