Heavy snow causes travel mayhem in Colorado and Wyoming
A storm dumping heavy snow buried highways in Colorado and Wyoming on Tuesday, prompted school closures in Nebraska and caused more than 1,000 people to spend the night in Denver’s airport after hundreds of flights were canceled just as the busy Thanksgiving week travel period went into high gear.At Denver International Airport, about 7 inches was on the ground by Tuesday morning with more expected in the afternoon.
About 1,100 travelers spent the night at the airport, including many cadets from the Air Force Academy near Colorado Springs who either missed flights or wanted to get to the airport before road conditions deteriorated, said airport spokeswoman Alex Renteria.Airport workers handed out blankets, diapers, baby formula, toothbrushes and toothpaste to the airline passengers who camped out for the night on floors and in chairs.
By midmorning, more than 2 feet of snow had fallen in northern Colorado and about a foot in southern parts of Wyoming — spurring the closures of long stretches of Interstates 70 and 76 in Colorado and Interstate 80 in Wyoming. Parts of I-80 were buried under snowdrifts of up to 4 feet, officials said.
“We are mindful that this is a holiday travel week, and we are working as fast and as quickly as possible to reopen the roads,” said Wyoming Department of Transportation spokeswoman Aimee Inama. “We will do that once the roads are safe for travelers,”
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