Rock Slide Closes Colorado Interstate
No One Injured
POSTED: 3:36 pm EST November 25, 2004
UPDATED: 3:44 pm EST November 25, 2004
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. -- A rock slide closed a 24-mile stretch of a Colorado interstate in both directions Thanksgiving morning, sending travelers on a 220-mile detour.
No one was injured, but workers were clearing several large boulders -- some as large as buses -- from Interstate 70, said public information officer Stacey Stegman with the Colorado Department of Transportation.
"It's going to delay dinner this afternoon," a CDOT spokesman said.
The rock slide at the Hanging Lake rest area closed I-70 from Glenwood Springs to Gypsum around 8 a.m. There was no immediate estimate on when the road might reopen, but it likely won't open until later Thursday evening, Stegman said.
The slide covers all four lanes of traffic and is estimated to be 50 feet wide and 8 to 10 feet deep.
The highway was empty when the slide occurred because the road had closed after a semitrailer overturned Thursday morning. Crews were getting ready to reopen the highway when the rock slide happened about a mile away.
No injuries were reported from the truck accident.
CDOT hopes to have at least one westbound lane open in the afternoon. Eastbound lanes will probably take longer.
http://www.wral.com/news/3950188/detail.html
Distributed by Internet Broadcasting Systems, Inc. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Rock Slide Closes Colorado Interstate
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Add the current winter storm in that area... and you have a genuine mess.
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