LOOK – Englewood calls in snow plow to clear roads after hail storm

If you drove through Colorado’s Front Range on Saturday and thought you’d somehow timetraveled to January, you weren’t alone. A severe thunderstorm dumped so much hail on Englewood that the city had to bring in an actual snow plow to clear the roads, on Aug. 15, in the middle of summer, while the rest of the country was complaining about the heat.

Video shared by South Metro Fire Rescue and picked up by CNN, CBS News, The Weather Channel and seemingly every weather account on the internet shows a plow pushing through thick accumulations of hail near Meridian Boulevard and Oswego Street, shoving mounds of ice off the roadway like it was a February blizzard. Several intersections in the area were impacted, with hail piling up inches deep and turning Englewood streets into a frozen obstacle course that no one’s August wardrobe was prepared for.

And the hail wasn’t even the wildest part of the weekend. Many landspout tornadoes were also spotted in the region as the same storm system rolled through, because Colorado’s weather apparently decided one absurd phenomenon per day wasn’t enough.

For anyone who has lived in Colorado for more than a single summer, this isn’t entirely surprising, hail storms in August are rare but not unheard of along the Front Range. But a snow plow clearing roads while your neighbor is watering their lawn in shorts? That’s a level of Colorado cognitive dissonance that never gets old.

File this one under “things you can only explain to out-of-staters by showing them the video.”