DENVER—Heavy rains have triggered two mud slides that temporarily blocked traffic on two highways in Colorado.
The Colorado Department of Transportation says boulders fell across both lanes of U.S. 50 Tuesday night, temporarily closing the highway west of Canon City. No cars were reported to have been hit.
Another slide blocked U.S. 550 north of Red Mountain Pass in southwest Colorado, but traffic was moving Tuesday night.
The National Weather Service had warned of mud slides and fast-rising mountain streams as thunderstorms moved through the state Tuesday. It issued flash flood warnings for parts of several southern and central Colorado counties.
In Colorado Springs, police reported some street flooding Tuesday evening, with water reaching as high as car bumpers.
