Posted on 01/10/2017 7:40:33 AM PST by WellyP
I-70 is CLOSED both directions on Vail Pass due to an avalanche across the Interstate.
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Sounds like a good reason to ski Winter Park!
And I80 closed from Colfax to the Nevada state line in both directions due to zero visibility and a full-on blizzard.
Snowing 3in per hour and wind over 50MPH.
Even the Union Pacific rail line from Reno to Sacramento is closed due to washouts.
Highway 50 closed above Sacramento to Lake Tahoe due to blizzard and avalanche warnings.
And it’s all coming YOUR way...
This would be news if this were July. However, it is winter.
Global warming...
Sigh. 1-70 is getting to be a typical score against the Avalanche this season. Go Avs, get em next time....
Oh? Sorry... wrong thread.
Global Warming will be blamed, I assume.
Whoa!!!
That’s going to make the commute to and from Fredrick a nightmare!
Oh wait....
Something sheared off that’s for sure and it was probably dark too
Gee, I hope Moochie wasn’t on a skiing trip.
Europe has shutdown major rivers and even the Bosporus Strait due to weather. Just a taste of what’s coming over the next decade or two. One forecaster is predicting a massive ice storm end of this week in central US.
UPDATE: ADD GEORGETOWN!
ANNOUNCEMENTS Closure
I-70 is closed in both directions between Silverthorne and Georgetown for avalanche reduction work and clean-up. Snow 10ft deep and 100+ yards long across the roadway.
I-70 is also CLOSED both directions on Vail Pass due to an avalanche across the Interstate. All EB CMV’s must use Exit 133/Dotsero for staging.
US 40 over Berthoud Pass is also closed for Avalanche Control work.
US 6 Loveland Pass Closed due to Avalanche Potential
US 50 Monarch Pass is also closed for avalanche reduction.
*Avalanche potential is extreme over many mountain passes, expect delay for control work over any mountain roads*
All you commenters think you have it bad. Where I live they just announced ANOTHER snow day, so I have the rugrats at home again today.
Then we were there at the same time. Still doing a little cleanup when we went through. A lot of the passes out there I don’t care for at all.
Hey Kiddo, how the heck are you? I don’t know that we have gotten to visit since I moved to Phoenix and then retired.
Do you know how many miles you have to drive each year to see 9 grandkids none of whom are within 1800 miles?
I believe we were camping at Snow Mountain Ranch outside Granby which is owned by YMCA of the Rockies.
It took me a while, but I finally found an account of the Berthoud Pass accident to which I referred. It occurred August 10, 1987 (Mid Summer)
Boulder Hits Tour Bus, Kills 6 : 16 Hurt as Rock Big as Car Falls on Colorado Road
August 10, 1987|United Press International
WINTER PARK, Colo. — A car-sized boulder fell from an embankment and smashed into a tour bus on a steep mountain pass in the Colorado Rockies today, killing six people and injuring 16 others, county officials said.
A Gray Lines spokesman said the passengers were from all over the United States and from overseas as well.
“The right side of the bus is completely gone, just like it was cut out by a can opener,” said a spokesman for the Grand County Sheriff’s Department.
The boulder rolled down the mountain and slammed into the Gray Line tour bus at 11:50 a.m. PDT. The bus, carrying 28 tourists, had left Denver at 8:30 a.m. and was due back at 6:30 p.m.
Grand County officials said 6 people were killed, 16 were hurt and 6 escaped injury in the accident, which occurred on 11,307-foot-high Berthoud Pass, 10 miles east of Winter Park and 57 miles west of Denver.
‘Circle Tour’ Trip
John Schmidt, dispatcher for Gray Lines bus tours in Denver, said the bus had left Denver earlier in the day for the “Circle Tour,” a 250-mile trip that takes passengers over Berthoud Pass and through Rocky Mountain National Park.
The bus was traveling downhill on U.S. 40 and was about a quarter of a mile from the last switchback on the mountain pass when the rock fell from a steep embankment of loose dirt and rocks above, said sheriff’s Deputy Mark Thornton.
“A witness said . . . the rock was as big or bigger than his car,” Thornton said.
At least four of the most seriously injured passengers, two in critical condition, were flown to Denver General Hospital and to St. Anthony Hospital in Denver, authorities said. The other injured people were treated at Seven Mile Clinic in Winter Park and at Timberline Clinic in Granby.
Schmidt, the Gray Line dispatcher, said he was sending two vans and a Wagoneer to pick up the six passengers who were not injured.
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Now I had gone up and back down on that pass with my two boys just a few days prior. I have only been over it once since then — I do not like it.
I also hear 550 north of Durango is closed and that has Molas and Coal Bank Passes which I have been over in a big snow storm hoping I could make it before I got snowed up.
We were going to Winter Park.
Been doing good. Retired a few years ago so getting fat and lazy. Was on FR very little for several of the obama years. Still see a few names I recognize on here.
Have fun visiting the grandkids.
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