'Avoid Heading West' Colorado State Patrol Urges Caution During Winter Storm, Westbound I-70 Closed At C-470
GOLDEN, Colo. (CBS4)- Westbound lanes of Interstate 70 at C-470 were closed for several hours on Wednesday evening and expected to remain closed until 11 p.m. but the closure could extend into Thursday morning. All traffic was diverted to C-470. US 40 through Mt. Vernon Canyon was also closed.
Colorado State Patrol tweeted just before 9 p.m. that it was snowing at a rate of more than one inch per hour, which is more than the Colorado Department of Transportation could keep up with. CSP hoped to reopen I-70 by 11 p.m. but that would depend on getting plows through to clear the road and also getting to all the stuck cars, trucks and semis.
The Colorado State Patrol initially tweeted just before 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, "Avoid heading west for a few hours, please."
Areas such as Conifer, Evergreen, Black Hawk/Central City, Nederland, and Estes Park should see 6 to 12 inches of snow during the Winter Storm Warning in what CBS4 meteorologists have claimed as a First Alert Weather Day.
