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Threat of avalanches closed a stretch of Interstate 70 west of Denver
Posted January 1st, 2008 by Weather Toolbar
DENVER More than 2,000 travelers were stranded at Red Cross shelters in the Colorado high country Monday as a threat of avalanches closed a stretch of Interstate 70 west of Denver.
Deep snow drifted into more than two dozen narrow ravines in the mountainsides known as avalanche chutes raising the danger of potentially deadly snow slides cascading onto I-70.
High winds and blowing snow forced the state to close the highway overnight. There was no word on when the busy thoroughfare through the mountains would reopen.
"I can't even venture a guess right now," Rod Mead, a spokesman for the Colorado Department of Transportation, said Monday.
Crews planned to use low-power explosives Monday morning trying to bring the snow down while the highway was closed, Mead said.
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