We have lived through many big snows too but not in Colorado Springs. Here we get one big blizzard every 5 years or so and it melts in a few days.
We used to have big snows like this in southern Maryland when I was a kid and even back in Gaithersburg, MD in the 1980s - 2016.
Gaithersburg in 1988 in the middle of the county just north of Washington, DC.
And in 2003 it was so high I could sit up on the snow to open our mailbox. Schools were closed for 9 straight days but since I worked in Central Office I had to go in 5 of the days