Snowmass Village, Colorado. Snowmass Village is a Home Rule Municipality in Pitkin County, Colorado, United States. The population was 2,826 at the 2010 census. A popular winter resort location for skiing and snowboarding, the town is well known as the location of the Snowmass ski area, the largest of the four nearby ski areas operated collectively as Aspen/Snowmass. In 2010 the accidental discovery by a bulldozer operator of fossilized elements of a Pleistocene ecosystem in the ice age lake bed at the Ziegler Reservoir pu
â¢ If you can hear thunder, you are within 10 miles (16 kilometers) of a stormâand can be struck by lightning. Seek shelter and avoid situations in which you may be vulnerable. â¢ Use the 30-30 rule, when visibility is good and there is nothing obstructing your view of the thunderstorm.
Avoid getting caught in a dangerous situation! If you can hear thunder, you are close enough to be struck by lightning! Myth: Itâs not raining here, and skies above me are clear, therefore I am safe from lightning. Fact: Lightning can strike many miles away from the thunderstorm. If storms are in your area, but skies. happen to be clear above you, that certainly does not imply you are safe from lightning. Though these. âBolts from the Blueâ are infrequent, lightning strikes 10 to 15 miles away from the storm are not out of the.