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Throughout Summit County, drivers are reporting slides and site visitors jams as a winter storm coincided with the beginning of vacation journey on Friday, Jan. 12, forward of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend.
Loveland Go remained closed for a lot of the day Friday, with hazmat automobiles parked within the Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial tunnels, in response to the Colorado Division of Transportation’s COTrip.org. The closure of the passage means periodic site visitors stops within the tunnels to permit harmful automobiles to go by way of, which may trigger lengthy delays.
A number of rounds of snow are anticipated within the mountains together with arctic temperatures this weekend, so drivers ought to be geared up with the mandatory gear in case of a closure, the transportation division mentioned in a information launch.
Motorists mustn’t journey with no snow scraper, flashlights, blankets, water, meals, a primary help equipment, important medicines, tire chains, tow straps, jumper cables, flares to name for assist or warn different motorists, coats, hats, mittens, boots and hand heaters, in response to the division.
On Friday, transportation division cameras confirmed westbound site visitors within the tunnels shifting slowly as a line of vans stopped on the chain station.
On social media, residents reported a number of crashes and site visitors jams in Hoosier Go, in addition to different elements of the county and surrounding areas, similar to Colorado Freeway 9 and US Freeway 6.