With a few minor changes, 1/6-1/10 could’ve been a slightly lesser version of Feb 6-10 2010, even for the northern tier.
Those 10” totals from the first wave and those HECS totals from the second were absolutely in play even north of I-70, and the upper level setup was probably as good as it could get for that to play out.
But it’s just bad dumb luck these days.