One person died in one of several traffic accidents that closed Interstate 25 after a freezing rain storm blanketed the highway with ice, according to 9news.
Interstate 25 from Wellington north to the Wyoming border and most highways across Colorado that were also closed because of ice have now reopened.
The National Weather Service in Boulder had a freezing rain advisory in place until noon north of Fort Collins and until 3 p.m. for the Eastern Plains near Akron and Sterling, meteorologist Bernie Meier said.
“It doesn’t take much freezing rain to make the roads a sheet of ice,” Meier said.
There is a winter storm warning for the mountains, which are expected receive anywhere from 1 to 2 feet of snow up to 4 feet of snow in the San Juans, he said.
An accident involving a semi tractor-trailer closed Colorado 114 between Gunnison and Saguache in the Southwest part of the state and it is still closed, said Mike Murray, spokesman for the Colorado Department of Transportation.
Colorado 149 also remains closed at Slungullion Pass and Spring Creek Pass in Southwest Colorado because of weather, he said.
Chain laws are in effect for trucks on both sides of the Eisenhower Tunnel on Interstate 70 and on Loveland Pass, Murray said.
Southbound I-25 has reopened at Walsenburg after an accident involving a semi tractor-trailer closed the highway this morning for several hours, Murray said.
Westbound U.S. 36 was also closed at Flat Irons Crossing but is now open, Meier said.
U.S. 6 about seven miles East of Grand Junction was closed in both directions because of downed power lines apparently following a traffic accident, Murray said. The road is now open.
Kirk Mitchell: 303-954-1206 or kmitchell@denverpost.com
