Saturday, April 18, 2015

I-80 In Wyoming Opens After Poor Weather Caused Day-Long Shutdown

A 150-mile stretch of Interstate 80 between Cheyenne and Rawlins, Wyoming, reopened Friday night, more than 20 hours after major wrecks involving dozens of semi trucks forced police to close it down.
Blinding, blowing snow hit southern Wyoming Thursday, creating impossible driving conditions that police say likely led to a series of three wrecks along the interstate. More than 30 commercial vehicles and 12 passenger cars were involved.
Photos show the semi trucks piled up on one another. No one was killed, but about a dozen people were hospitalized. 
Poor weather continued to hammer the area into Friday, complicating the cleanup effort, and forcing WHP to keep the interstate shutdown. They urged anyone planning to drive through the area to check www.wyoroad.infobeforehand.
The system brought winter-like weather into the Rockies and High Plains Thursday into Friday, dusting the Denver foothills with a few inches of snow, and dumping at least 45 inches at Snowbird ski resort in Utah.

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